老外亲授视频教学:单词怎么记才事半功倍?(文本及中译如下,供参考)
I'm going to share with you a technique that you can use to remember English vocabulary. And the reason that I recommend this technique is that it's pretty effective.我想和大家分享一个记忆英语单词的方法,原因是这个方法非常有效。I actually did a small experiment. I created two lists of words that I didn't know and I just tried to memorize the words in each list. I did not use any technique to memorize the first list. It was just pure repetition.实际上,我曾经做过一个实验。我创建了两张生词表,并尝试记忆这两张表上的单词。记忆第一张单词表的时候我没有使用任何技巧,只是纯粹的重复。But for the second list, I used the technique that you're about to learn. The next day I tried to recall the meanings of the words in both lists.但是第二张单词表,我运用了你们即将学习的技巧。第二天,我尝试着回忆两张单词表上所有单词的意思。For the first list, I was able to recall only 12 %. But for the second list, I recalled as much as 50 %. This is pretty impressive considering the fact that I spent only one minute memorizing each word. So let me explain the technique.第一张生词表,我只记起其中12%的单词的意思。但第二张生词表我大约记起了50%。这一结果令我惊讶,因为每个单词我只花了一分钟时间记忆。所以让我来给你们介绍这一方法吧。
So let’s say we want to remember the word adroit, which means clever or skillful at something; really good at something.如果说我们想要记住“adroit”这个单词,这一单词的意思是灵巧的,机敏的,熟练的。The first thing we need to do is to come up with another word that sounds similar to this word. And that word must refer to something that we can visualize - something that we can see in our mind.我们要做的第一件事是想出一个发音和它类似的单词。这个单词必须是我们可以视觉化的,可以在我们脑海中显现的事物。