1. 认识这个词(基础篇)
词:count
英英释义:to be important or valuable
例句:How you learn it counts more than how much you learn.
2. 体会这个词 (进阶篇)
“count”最常见的动词意思是“数数”,但也可作不及物动词,表示“什么什么重要”。很多时候当我们想用到形容词“important”时,就可以用更简洁的动词“count”。这个用法可能是《经济学人》的记者和编辑最喜欢使用的几十个小词之一,在口语中也是极其高频的表达。
我们常说“细节非常重要”,就可以说 Details count. “第一印象很重要”,可以说 First impressions count. 比如想要表达“财富观比拥有的财富本身更重要”时,我们可以说:
What counts the most is not how rich you are, but how you treat wealth.
这个 “What counts the most is not X, but Y.” 就是一个超高频句式,口语和写作中都可以用得到。在《极简欧洲史》(The Shortest History of Europe)中,作者提到“民主”的定义时就引用了下面这段话:
When it is a question of putting one person before another in positions of public responsibility, what counts is not membership of a particular class, but the actual ability which the man possesses.
“count”的这层意思还有一个孪生词:“matter”。两个词可以完美同义替换,上面例句中的“count”也都可以用“matter”来替换,比如:
How you learn it matters more than how much you learn.
这段话也体现了“每日一词”的初衷:学习那些最值得学习的词,把这些词学透。
3. 从认识到会用(作业)
1)翻译下面的句子:
重要的不是发生了什么事,而是你如何应对这件事。
(参考翻译:How you respond to it counts/matters more than what happened.)
2)结合自己的生活、学习、工作、兴趣等,想象在什么语境下会用到这个表达。先简要描述这个场景,再造句。
例子:
场景 :
example:1. How you learn it counts more than how much you learn.
2. Details counts.
First impressions counts.
3.What counts the most is not how rich you are ,but how you treat wealth.
sentence pattern:1. A counts more than B
2. A counts.
3.what counts the most is not A, but B.