葛传椝英文学习法
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A FEW WARNINGWarning:警告 WORDS

In this book you will find many bits of advice and information that you have not found elsewhere.elsewhere:在他处 I shall write in the light ofin the light of …:以……为根据 my own experience and in the belief that what I say will be of practical use to you,and I hope that you will find it really useful.

Here I will say a few warning words. I say “warning words”,mind.mind:请注意 I feel that most Chinese students of English— including you perhaps — need warning.

First of all,First of all:第一 I have to warn you against spending money and time on books that professprofess:自以为 to teach you something but really teach you nothing. There is no royal road to the mastery of English.There is no royal road to the mastery of English:精通英文,并无不劳而获之秘诀。 You cannot master English in three years,still lessstill less:更不可能 in three months. You cannot learn composition by reading about some rules of composition. You cannot acquire the ability to write correct English by reading an outlineoutline:纲要 of grammar. Don’t imagine that every authorauthor:著作人 of a composition book or a grammargrammar:文法书 can himself write a composition or write correct English.

Secondly,I have to warn you against respecting persons.respecting persons:因重视其人而即重视其才 You learn English;you learn the English of the English people,not the English of a few professorsprofessors:大学教授 and Ph.D.’s.Ph. D. =Philosophiae Doctor = Doctor of Philosophy:哲学博士 You will do better todo better to …:作……较为有益 read a third-ratethird-rate:第三等的;劣的 English novelnovel:章回小说 by an unknown author than read any treatisetreatise:论文 by a Ph.D. who knows more about the waythe way = the way in which the English people eat or swimswim:游泳 than the way they write.

Thirdly,I have to warn you against trying to be “literary”“literary”:文学的 or “classical”.“classical”:古典的 You should aim at a clear and idiomatic style,style:文体 but not at any “literary” or “classical” beauty. You may have considerableconsiderable:颇大的 literary talenttalent:才 or even genius.genius:天才 But you cannot possibly express it in English before you can write clear and idiomatic English.

Fourthly,and lastly,I have to warn you against confining yourself toconfining yourself to:自限于 a few school-books. You cannot master English without reading widely. By “reading widely” I mean the reading of not only books and magazinesmagazines:杂志 and newspapers but also anything else in English that you may come across.come across:遇到 A posterposter:招贴 or a signboardsignboard:招牌 may teach you some practical English that you cannot learn from another source.