8. Learning English 學(xué)英語
A: Ralph, do me a favor, will you?
B: That all depends on what it is.
A: This is the proble, I'm still having trouble with my English. The instructor suggests that I ask an American to help me by telling me how he says the things I say which just aren't English. I wanted you to be the American.
B: What good'll it do? You never speak English unless you absolutely have to. I'll help you if you promise to speak noting but English all the time.
A: All right. Maybe I'll do that. It's the only way I'll be able to learn English fast enough, I guess.
Notes
What good'll it do? - it will be useless
Unless you absolutely have to… 除了你非…不可
Make a bargain with sb. 同…約定
A：拉爾夫，幫我一個(gè)忙，好嗎？
B：這要看幫什么忙。
A：我有個(gè)困難。我的英語仍然遇到麻煩。老師建議我請(qǐng)一位美國人幫助，要他告訴我，我說的那些根本不像英語的話應(yīng)當(dāng)怎樣說。我想要你做這個(gè)美國人。
B：這有什么用？你除了非說不可的時(shí)候，你從來不說英語。好吧！我跟你達(dá)成一個(gè)協(xié)議：如果你保證在任何時(shí)候除了英語外什么也不說，我就幫助你。
A：好吧，也許我能辦得到。我想這是我能迅速學(xué)會(huì)英語的方法。
9. Learning Vocabulary 學(xué)習(xí)詞匯
A: I don't understand why we have to memorize conversations. We need more vocabulary, not pronunciation.
B: Don't you think memorizing conversations is a part of learning vocabulary? Every time we memorize a conversation, we're memorizing a whole series of contexts. Each context tells us one way a word can be used, I know from my own language that I can't always use words by simply looking them up in a dictionary and then putting them into sentences. Some words have many meanings. We have to know which meanings go where.
Notes
Context (文章或講話中的)前后文(根據(jù)前后文的邏輯可以確定某一個(gè)具有多種解釋的詞或短語的含義)
Which meanings go where 哪一種解釋講得通
A：我弄不懂為什么我們一定要記住會(huì)話。我們需要的是詞匯，而不是發(fā)音。
B：你不認(rèn)為記住會(huì)話是學(xué)習(xí)詞匯的一個(gè)組成部分嗎？每當(dāng)我們記住一句會(huì)話，我們就記住了全部的上下文。而這上下文可以供我們了解一個(gè)單詞的一種用法。我從自己的語言中意識(shí)到，光靠查詞典然后把這些詞匯拼成句子，并不意味著會(huì)正確使用這些詞。有些意識(shí)有很多解釋。我們必須弄清楚在哪種情況下適用哪一種解釋。
10.Spelling 拼音
A: You know, Ralph, since I started speaking English all the time my pronunciation's getting better and even the grammar's beginning to make some sense. But I don't think I'll ever be able to spell.
B: You're not alone there. I have trouble with spelling too. When I was in grade school, I learned which words were the most frequently misspelled, but I never did learn how to spell them.
A: Since it's so difficult, why is it so important to learn how to spell properly?
B: Because if you spell satisfactorily, you're considered educated. If you don't, you're not.
Notes
Make sense - to become understandable
Grade school (美國的)小學(xué)
A：拉爾夫，你知道，自從我開始所有時(shí)間都講英語以來，我的發(fā)音有了進(jìn)步，而且語法也開始理順了。不過我不認(rèn)為我能把字拼出來。
B：不是你一個(gè)人如此。我在拼音方面也有困難。當(dāng)我上小學(xué)的時(shí)候，我知道哪些詞是經(jīng)常拼錯(cuò)的，但我沒有學(xué)會(huì)如何拼這些詞。
A：既然這么難，為什么學(xué)會(huì)準(zhǔn)確拼音又如此重要呢？
B：因?yàn)槿绻隳軠?zhǔn)確無誤地拼音，人家就會(huì)把你看作受到教育的人。否則，在別人眼里你是個(gè)缺乏教育的人。 轉(zhuǎn)貼