日常英语学习February 7，2022

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学习资料链接:30天英语口语训练

• 话题是学习

  Learning : a Lifelong Career

• 文章如下

  As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind. Our bodies grow and muscles develop with the intake of food. Likewise , we should keep learning day by day to maintain our mental power and expand our intellectual capacity.

  • as... is to ... so is ... to 正如...之于... ...也是如此

  • develop

    develop

  • intake 吸收

    intake

    daily intake of calories

  • likewise adv.同样地;类似地

    = in the same way/sense

  • mental power 智力

  • IQ=intelligence quotient 智商

  Constant learning supplies us with fuel for driving us to sharpen our power of reasoning, analysis , and judgement. Continuous learning is the best way to keep pace with times in the information age.

  • supply sb with sth

  • driving force 驱动力

    strong driving force 强大的动力

  • sharpen

    sharpen 柯林斯
    sharpen 牛津

  • reason 推理

    reason

  • keep pace with 与时俱进

  • times 时代

  • information age 信息时代

  • positive energy 正能量

  It is a common misunderstanding to regard school as the only place for the acquisition of knowledge. On the contrary, learning should be an endless process, from the cradle to the grave. With the world changing so fast , to stop learning for just a few days will make a person lag behind.

  • 上一篇学到了equate sth with sth 可以用在regard那里替换

  • misunderstanding misconception 误解

  • acquisition

    acquisition

  • from the cradle to the grave

    一生一世;从死到生

    • cradle 摇篮；发源地

      cradle

    • grave 坟墓；死亡，去世

    • lag 落后

      lag

  Lack of learning will inevitably lead to the stagnation of the mind, or even worse, its fossilization. Therefore, to stay mentally young, we have to take learning as a lifelong career.

  • stagnation [stæɡ'neɪʃ(ə)n] 停滞

    stagnation

    • booming economy 经济繁荣

      Economy is growing fast.

      Economy slows down. 增速放缓

      stagnation 停滞

      depression 大萧条

      depression

      boost / stimulate economy

      inflation 通货膨胀

      stagflation 滞胀(高通胀与低就业率或经济低迷并存)

      insider 知内情者；内部的人

  • fossil

    fossil

    • fossilization n.石化,僵化

      -lization... ...化

  • to stay young both physically and mentally

  • take sth as ... 把...当作

• 翻译

  学习之于心智,正如食物之于身体一样重要。摄取了适量的一样十五，我们的身体得以生长，肌肉得以发达。同样地，我们应该日复一日不断学习以保持我们敏锐的心智能力，并扩充我们的智力容量。

  不断的学习给提供我们用不尽的燃料，来读懂我们提高我们的推理、分析和判断的能力。持续的学习是再信息时代中跟时代并驾齐驱的最稳当的方法。

  视学校为汲取知识的唯一地方是一种常见的误解。相反地,学习应该是一种从死到生无止境的过程。世界变化如此迅速，几天不学习就会使人落后。

  缺少学习会不可避免的导致心灵的停滞，甚至更糟糕地，使其僵化。因此为了保持心理年轻我们必须将学习当作一生的事业。