看美劇英語閱讀:The dress is a one of a kind
「讀」到這句美劇裡的英語,我們需要回答幾個問題:
1、你做了什麼?藉此查英英字典了沒有?
2、你會「怎麼讀」?你「記住」的又是什麼(語言):它的中文,還是它的英語?
「學」英語絕對不是僅僅做到「我懂得它的中文什麼意思了」就算達到目的了。
一、我們需要養成查英英字典的習慣和能力:
1. 網絡字典:One of a kind
unique
這是最簡單的查英英字典,雖然也「不需要中文」,而是藉助(已知)英語知道了英語one of a kind「什麼意思」。但是也是最沒效果的方法:你只得到一個英語單詞釋義,只是「思維碎片」,根本沒有由此形成完整的「英語思維」:說一句完整的英語句子(口語)。
2.Free dictionary:One of a kind
a person or thing that is not like any other person or thing
3.Cambridge:One of a kind
3a.the only person or thing of a particular type:
3b.used to describe a product or service that is the only one of its type, or that is very unusual:
不用英語學英語,你就沒有機會把學過的英語unique,unusual,only one等同義詞「互為理解」「互為解釋」。
4.Collins:One of a kind
If you refer to someone or something as one of a kind, you mean that there is nobody or nothing else like them.
在眾多的網絡英英字典裡,我最喜愛的字典之一,就是Collins:它直接就是給你提供一句完整的英語句子(英語思維之謂也!)
二、我們通過「讀」美劇The dress is a one of a kind,我們「說的」還是英語:
Okay.I got you.If you say someone or something is one of a kind, you mean that there is nobody or nothing else like them,they are unique,they're the only one/the best one of its kind,they're not like any other person or thing
我們的「英語閱讀」要的就是我們「會說」這樣的英語的習慣和能力。
For example
1.She's a very unusual woman, one of a kind.
2.I don't know how we'll ever replace Mary after she retires. She's really one of a kind.