如果你聽不懂，而且沒有列印稿怎麼辦？
Or maybe there’s a transcript but you can’t read it at the time.
或者可能有一份列印稿，但你當時無法看。
What should you do?
你該怎麼辦？
Well, you have three options.
你有三個選擇。
Option 1: Do Nothing
選項一：什麼都不做
It’s not a big deal if you don’t understand some parts of the conversation as long as you understand the main idea. You don’t need to read the transcript just because you can’t make out some words or sentences.
如果你不理解談話的某些部分，只要你理解了主旨，那就沒什麼大不了的。你不必僅僅因為聽不懂一些單詞或句子就去看列印稿。
Now you might be wondering, 「If I don’t read, how will I learn the meaning of new vocabulary?」
現在你可能會想，「如果我不讀，我將如何學習新詞彙的意義？」
This is a common concern. Some English students believe that in order to learn new words, they must look up those words in a dictionary. They believe that it’s the only way to learn new words.
這是大家共同關心的問題。一些英語學生認為為了學習新單詞，他們必須查字典。他們認為這是學習新單詞的唯一方法。
But that’s not true! The truth is, your amazing brain has the ability to learn the meanings of new words from context (surrounding words). This is how you learned your Chinese (without using transcripts or dictionaries).
但那不是真的！事實是，你驚人的大腦有能力從上下文（周圍的詞）中學習新詞的含義。這就是你學習漢語的方法（不用抄本或字典）。
So, don’t worry if you don’t know some words when listening to English. If you hear people use those words multiple times in different contexts, your brain will eventually figure out the meanings of those words.
所以，如果你在聽英語的時候不知道一些單詞，不要擔心。如果你聽到人們在不同的語境中多次使用這些詞，你的大腦最終會明白這些詞的含義。
But what if the material is too difficult? And you don’t even understand the main idea. What do you do?
但是如果材料太難怎麼辦？你甚至都不明白主要的意思。你要怎麼做呢？
In this case, let’s talk about the next option.
在這種情況下，讓我們討論下一個選項。
Option 2: Listen to Something Easier
選擇2：聽一些簡單的
When some students start listening to something, they try to finish it even though it’s too difficult to understand. Trying to do so is painful. After a while, these students usually quit improving their listening altogether!
當一些學生開始聽一些東西時，他們會試圖把它聽完，儘管它太難理解了。嘗試這樣做是痛苦的。過了一段時間，這些學生通常就放棄不再想提高聽力了！
This behavior is not good. There’s a lot of free English material on the Internet. And new English material is created every day. Therefore, there’s absolutely no need to 「finish」 what you start.
這種行為不好。網上有很多免費的英語材料。每天都有新的英語材料被發出來。因此，完全沒有必要一定要聽那些很難的材料。
If the material you’re listening to is very difficult (or boring), just delete it and find something else to listen to.
如果你正在聽的材料很難（或者很無聊），就把它刪掉，然後找別的東西聽。
But what if almost everything is too difficult for you? What do you do?
但如果幾乎所有的事情對你來說都太難了呢？你要怎麼做呢？
In this case, let’s discuss the next option.
在這種情況下，讓我們討論下一個選項。
Option 3: Read in English to Learn New Vocabulary
選項三：多閱讀英語以學習新詞彙
If you feel like almost everything you listen to is too difficult to understand, your vocabulary is probably very small. That’s why you have trouble understanding most English conversations.
如果你覺得幾乎所有你聽的東西都太難理解，你的詞彙量可能很小。這就是為什麼你很難理解大多數英語會話。
In that case, I suggest that, other than listening to English, you also read in English to quickly learn words and phrases commonly used in conversations.
在這種情況下，我建議，除了聽英語，你還要同時多閱讀英語，快速學習會話中常用的單詞和短語。
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