【正文】 方式去思考，這一過程幾乎像是再次回到童年。 That’s what you must learn to do again when you are learning a foreign language. You need to learn to associate sounds with objects, and to think in a new way. Only this time, since you are grown up, you will be able to understand what needs to be done much faster. You’ll know why somebody is pointing to a tree and saying a strange word. You may even have to relearn it many times before you finally actually learn it. 這是你在學(xué)習(xí)外語是必須再次學(xué)會(huì)做的事。但是你仍然得學(xué)習(xí)那個(gè)新單詞。在阿拉伯國家，它的名字是 shajra。 To learn a foreign language you must get away from the idea of translating words. Translating takes too much time and mental energy. You will never learn to really speak and understand a foreign language if you have to translate in your mind. Instead, learn to associate the new sound directly with the image in your mind. So when we hear the sound ‖Baum‖ or ‖shajra‖ or ‖shu‖, we don’t want to think, ‖Hmmmm. Baum means tree, which means that great big green leafy thing.‖ 要學(xué)習(xí)外語，你必須擺脫逐詞翻譯的想法。這樣當(dāng)我們聽見 Baum， shajra，或 shu 等音時(shí)，就不會(huì)去想 ―嗯，Baum 的意思是樹，樹指的是哪個(gè)高大的綠色的長(zhǎng)滿葉子的東西。我們使用兩個(gè)構(gòu)成要素，而別人也許使用三個(gè)較小的 ——也可能是一個(gè)大的。比如，在法語和西班牙語中， we have to buy 被分成三個(gè)詞： we /have to /，土耳其人能將所有這四個(gè)詞縮減成一個(gè)。要學(xué)會(huì)用哪種語言去思考，你只需一遍又一遍地使用它，問并回答簡(jiǎn)單的問題，直到你對(duì)這一過程感到得心應(yīng)手為止。s a great moment. Really satisfying. You probably wouldn39。有人講什么講得很快，而你會(huì)突然意識(shí)到你都能聽懂！那是一個(gè)美妙的時(shí)刻。你已經(jīng)開始不需要翻譯就能理解了。 At the front of the first car – looking out the window at the track that lay ahead – were a man and his son. We had just stopped to let off passengers, and the doors wee closing again. ―Here we go! Hold on to me tight!‖ the father said. The boy, about five years old, made sounds of pure delight. 在頭節(jié)車廂的最前面，坐著一個(gè)男人和他的兒子。拉緊我 !‖父親說。 ―Look out there!‖ the father said to his son. ―See that pilot? I bet he’s walking to his plane.‖ The son stretched his neck to look. ―快看 !‖父親對(duì)兒子說： ―看見那位飛行員了嗎 ?我敢打賭他是去開飛機(jī)的。 I did, and just as I was about to reboard the train for my gate, I saw that the man and his son had returned too. I realized then that they hadn’t been heading for a flight, but had just bee riding the shuttle. 正準(zhǔn)備上車的時(shí)候，我看到那對(duì)父子也回來了。車門開了，我們都上了車。 ―Where are all these people going, Daddy?‖ the son asked. ―爸爸，這些人去哪 ?‖兒子問。這對(duì)父子卻在乘坐區(qū)間列車，非常興奮的享受著批次的陪伴。這位父親卻很在意花上一天陪伴兒子，并在這樣一個(gè)星期六的早上，提出這個(gè)計(jì)劃。父親指著窗外說著什么，兒子直樂。 We’re All Here to Learn 我們都 是來這兒學(xué)習(xí)的 ―Sixteen,‖ I said. I have fotten the math question my second? grade teacher, Joyce Cooper, asked that day, but I will never fet my answer. As soon as the number left my mouth, the whole class at Smallwood Elementary School in Norfolk, Va, started laughing. I felt like the stupidest person in the world. 我說： ―16。我覺得我是世界上最愚蠢的人。我寫道： ―我要成為像庫珀夫人那樣的教師。他是個(gè)機(jī)械師。我每天打掃拉里莫爾小學(xué)的 17間教室，其中包括庫珀夫人的教室。 Then one day in 1986 I thought of my dream, of how badly I wanted to help children. But to do that I needed to arrive in the mornings, as a teacher not in the afternoons to mop up. 1986 年的一天，我想起我的夢(mèng)想，想起我多么想幫助孩子們。沒有課的那一天，我擔(dān)任庫珀夫人的教學(xué)助理。在科爾曼普萊斯小學(xué)，校長(zhǎng)珍妮 Still, I had no concrete offers. The call came when I had just signed my 18th contract as a janitor’s assistant. Coleman Place had a job for me teaching fifth grade. 我仍然沒有得到具體的答復(fù)。我在黑板上寫下一個(gè)滿是語法錯(cuò)誤的句子，然后讓學(xué)生來修改錯(cuò)誤。這時(shí)，我想起了庫珀夫人。我給她回了 信 ,告訴她要做個(gè)乖女孩 ,一定要好好刷牙。 2,如果木屐傷腳的話 ,那是我自己的事情 。有 的字條是激烈爭(zhēng)吵后的道歉 ,其他的字條只是將歡快的心緒傾瀉在紙上。 . 我愛你 ,朱莉 又及 :對(duì)我來說 ,把自己的感情寫下來給你看比試圖講給你聽容易多了。你根本沒給我一個(gè)說話的機(jī) 會(huì) !如果你至少跟我討論一下事情 ,也許我們談起來就會(huì)容易一 `點(diǎn)。我想修飾一下容貌 ,凸顯出我的 眼睛 。我非常想念她 ,但我們的傳統(tǒng)再一次幫助我們渡過了 難關(guān)。 根據(jù) 一項(xiàng) 最新的 民意調(diào)查表明，美國人最憎恨但又不可或缺的 一項(xiàng) 發(fā)明是 ——手機(jī)。我們大多數(shù)人都對(duì)手機(jī)又愛又恨。 ―我們需要了解我我們的通訊對(duì)周圍每個(gè)人的影響。 這個(gè)研究小組試圖讓手機(jī)之間能