每日一句英譯英:Let's call it a day
英語語言的學習,不僅需要信息的「輸入」,更需要同樣信息的「輸出」。這才是語言學習的精髓,確切地說,是把英語學習轉化成英語「習得」式學習。
英語語言的學習,首先需要考慮的是信息的「輸入」,但更需要考慮的是同樣信息的「輸出」,而不是首先想著「這個中文意思用英語怎麼說」的漢譯英式思維式的學習。沒有英語做底子,你就有永遠「翻譯」不完的中文。
比如:Let's call it a day.
我們養成的學習習慣是首先問英語:What does it mean if you say Let's call it a day,而不是「中文思維」:中文什麼意思啊?
然後再得到「信息輸入」後,我們依然是用「英語思維」對這個問題做「回應:信息輸出Okay.I got you.
所以,首先養成正確良好的學習習慣和學習模式比什麼都重要,比永遠只會估計地用中文學一句英語更重要。
1)Examples
1.When we still couldn't find the solution=key=answer to the problem, we decided to call it a day and try it again tomorrow.
2. Our boss was mad because Tom called it a day at noon and he went home!
3. Well,this is the last new word I must remember today. Once I get it done, I can call it a day.
2) Meaning 信息輸入
1.If you call it a day, you mean you decide to stop doing something,stop working,or finish doing something you have been doing for that day.
2.You stop doing it,stop working.You finish doing for that day.
3) 英譯英,信息輸出
1.Okay.I got you.I got you.If I stop doing something,or if I stop working for the day,or for now,I'll say Let's call it a day.
2.Okay.I got you.If I want to stop learning English for today because I've been learning it for many hours,I'll say I'm going to stop it.I'll call it a day.
這才是一個完整有效的英語學習循環:有輸入,更有有輸出。