酷炫网页设计:英语学习法研究：一篇文章一百词汇z

英语学习在于积累，同时最令人痛苦的地方也在于此，如何高效地积累英语知识，尤其是积累词汇就成为英语学习的核心问题。有的人说拿一本词汇书狂记狂背就行，但这种方法容易产生遗忘问题；也有人说从阅读中学习并记忆词汇；但这种方法太浪费时间，对大家来说不太现实；也有的人说通过词根与词缀词汇最有效，但我认为这种方法只是词汇的补充，并不能把它作为记忆词汇的全部。在我看来，这些方法都有行之有效的方法，但并不是高效的方法。

从我个人学习英语的经验来说，我最近总结并提出一个概念叫做：“一篇文章一百词汇”。即就是通过精读一篇好文章来比较好地掌握一百来个词汇。也就是说通过研究一二十篇好的文章可以让我们的词汇量增加2000或者更多，所以我认为这是高效的方法之一。这种方法可以综合用时少，词汇记忆效果好等优点，更重要是它让我们掌握了词汇不是死的，而是活的，在用的词汇，在文章活生生的在用的词汇，这样你不但掌握了词汇，而且掌握它的最常用的用法。所以我最近一直在用这个方法来学习英语。感觉就像一个得道高人一样爽啊！呵呵。当然，要使用这个方法的话就会有这样一个问题：文章的来源是什么？我的答案是英美国家的杂志，如：The Economist (经济学家)，Business Week (商业周刊)，Wall Street Journal(华尔街杂志)；“TIME”，“Readers’ Digest”，等等。为什么选这些杂志作为文章来源呢？答案只有一个，这才是英语学习与提高的王道，这样我们才能学会地道的英文，我们的英语水平才能得到质的飞越。我有时看国内的一些文章感觉很好懂，其实并不是文章简单，而是因为这些文章都是中国人思维的产物，所以好懂了，因此，我提倡大学生有一定词汇量以后（比如5000-6000以上的）就应该开始读外国杂志。用在现在这个互联网的时代，我想找一本这样的杂志并不难吧，所以来源就讲到这里，然后我举例来说明如何通过精读一篇好文章来比较好地掌握一百来个词汇。

其实，掌握词汇是文章能给我们带来的最为明显的好处，但它还有什么用，用处太多了：我还可以总结出好的写作句型，好的惯出搭配等。

我从美国2005年5月的Readers’ Digest（读者文摘）一期中选了一篇这样的文章，题目是“He’s Got a Knife!”（他有一把刀！）原文如下：
A scream shattered the stillness of the Goodwin House retirement home one Sunday afternoon last January. How odd, thought John Springer, there visiting his 95-year-old mom. Typically, you might hear hushed voices at the Alexandria, Virginia, residence. But a scream? Before Springer, 62, could move from his chair, he heard another bloodcurdling cry. Then came the third, and he was out the door, hurrying toward the sound.
At the end of the hall, he could see brown hair spilling out of the doorway of one of the administrative offices. A woman lay on the floor. A beefy man in a gray custodian’s uniform knelt on top of her. Calmly, systematically, he was slashing her face and neck with a knife.
The woman was Jeanne Hobbs, a dining-staff supervisor at Goodwin House, a 37-year-old mother of three, had just hung up the phone with her husband, Geoffrey. She was about to leave work and head to her pottery class while Geoffrey fed the kids dinner and helped with their homework. But when she looked up from her desk, she saw a man in the doorway with a knife.
Hobbs recognized him as Mustafa Mohamed, a member of the housekeeping staff who customarily had a cheery hello and a smile. Mohamed was one of those people who always seemed willing to help out.
But an hour earlier, he erupted in anger when Hobbs asked him to take care of the trash. Furious, he had told her she couldn’t tell him what to do. And now, as he stood in the doorway, he wasn’t smiling.
There was no escape. Mohamed lunged at her, wrestled her to the ground and began stabbing her while she screamed.
Springer was a former Marine, who now managed a staff of 22 at a Washington, D.C., law firm. He was used to having his orders followed, and he shouted for Mohamed to stop.
But the assailant didn’t even look up. The walls and carpet were spattered with blood.
Springer rushed at Mohamed, grabbing his knife arm and allowing the woman to crawl away. The attacker looked to be in this 30s and was a muscular 5 feet, 10 inches and 230 pounds. Lurching to his feet, Mohamed grabbed Springer in a bear hug and crushed the smaller man’s face to his chest. Springer’s glasses flew off.
Years earlier, Springer had lost a lung to cancer, and now takes nearly 50 medications a day to control all of his ailments---a heart condition, high blood pressure, Grohn’s disease, and asthma. At 5 feet, 8 inches and 190 pounds, he was no match for Mohamed, who was now on top of him.
Springer saw the knife flick back and forth inches from her eyes. The serrated blade sliced open the skin on his scalp, forehead, and left cheek. He tried to grab Mohamed’s hand, but the slashing continued.
Then the assault abruptly stopped. A nursing aide stood in the doorway. She talked softly to Mohamed, attempting to distract him. When he stood up and moved toward her, she backed away and fled. He followed.
Now Springer, alone and bleeding, struggled to his knees and reached for his cell phone to call 911.
Mohamed was making his way down the corridor, walking through open doors and slashing at patients as they lay in their beds or sat in wheelchairs. Springer could hear screams, but he was too weak to move.
Down the hall, Jane Margaret Dow heard the commotion too. Dow, 59 , an editor at a wire service, was reading a newspaper at the bedside of her sleeping mother. She thought she’d heard a child, or perhaps a dog. Then someone shouted, “He’s killing her!”
Peering out the door, Dow saw man bent over a bed in a room down the hall. She couldn’t tell what he was doing, but when he came out of the room, his gray uniform was red with blood. Dow quickly shut her mother’s door. Her heart raced as she came up with a plan.
She had suddenly remembered the pepper spray that she had in her purse. A longtime city dweller, Dow had carried it around with her for year, just in case. Now she grabbed the canister and stepped into the hallway.
There was Mohamed, holding the knife. Advancing toward him was a male nurse. “Oh, Mustafa,” he said, “what have you done?” He kept talking, trying to calm Mohamed.
Dow fell in behind the nurse. She had never actually used the spray on a person---just once on a dog she was afraid might bite her. When she was within a few feet of Mohamed, she stepped out from behind the nurse, raised the can sprayed directly into his eyes.
Mohamed tried to get away, but Dow kept after him, spraying. In a fury, he turned toward her and lunged with the knife. The blade hit her in the stomach and she fell against the wall. Miraculously, the knife had bent. Her pink sweater wasn’t even ripped.
When Dow looked up, the man had surrendered the knife to the nurse and was leaning against the wall, mumbling. Minutes later, police arrived.
Mustafa Mohamed was arrested and charged with two counts of malicious wounding. He is currently undergoing psychiatric testing to determine whether he’s competent to stand trial.
In all, six people were injured in the Goodwin House attacks. John Springer required 48 stitches in his face and scalp. For days afterward, he couldn’t sleep.
Jeanne Hobbs needed 60 stitches. She returned to work two week after the incident, but only lasted four days. The memories were just too vivid. Now she’s back for good, but in a different job, in human resources, so she doesn’t have to go to the same office where the attack happened.
Four residents, all in their 80s or 90s, were also injured. One woman required 200 stitches. Another had a fractured neck. All of them survived and soon returned to Goodwin House.
“I consider John Springer my hero,” says Hobbs. “I didn’t expect anybody to come help. How many people are going to do that? He was very, very brave.”
Charles E. Samarra, a chief of the Alexandria police department, calls what Dow and Springer did “incredible bravery.” “Your quick and decisive action,” he wrote in letters to the two, “truly saved many people from critical or even fatal injury.”

永远不要小看一篇文章！
第一步：我们可以从其中总结出以下词汇，注意：我总结的是大学英语四级及以上水平的词汇，而且我只是总结每个词汇在此处的意思，我想这样更好记忆。整理如下：
1． hushed voice 寂静的声音 ----- hushed adj.寂静的，安静的
2．-------- residence 居住，住处
3．heard another bloodcurdling cry 听见另一个令人毛骨悚然的哭喊声
------ bloodcurdling adj.令人毛骨悚然的
4. see brown hair spilling out of the doorway 看见头发散落了一地
------spill v. 使贱落，使散落
5．a beefy man 一个身体强壮的人 ------- beefy adj.强壮的，结实的
6．in a gray custodian’s uniform 穿着灰色的管理员的制服
-----custodian n. 管理员，看护人 uniform n.制服
7．knelt on top of her 跪压着她 ----- kneel v. 跪下
8．--------systematically adv.系统地, 有系统地
9. He was slashing her face and neck with a knife. 他在用刀猛砍她的脸部与脖子。
------slash v. 猛砍
10.------help out 帮助(某人)解决困难
11. He erupted in anger 他勃然大怒 ----erupt vi. （火山等）喷发，发作
12. take care of the trash 处理垃圾 ----take care of 处理（我们最熟悉的意思就是：照顾。但它还有“处理”意思。） trash n. 垃圾
13. ----stab v. 刺, 捅(某人)
14. Springer was a former Marine. Springer以前是个海军 ----marine n. 海军
15. -----law firm 律师事务所 (其中的firm是公司的意思.呵,这个词组很常用)
16. ----hang up the phone 挂掉电话
17. -----assailant n. 袭击者
18. The walls and carpet were spattered with blood 墙上,地毯上布满了血
------ be spattered with 布满.充满….
19. ----grab v. 抢夺
20.-----crawl away 匍匐
21.-----attacker n.袭击者
22.----scream vi.大叫,尖叫
23. -----muscular adj. 肌肉发达的
24.-----flew off (原形是:fly off) 脱去,掉下来
25. lurching to his feet 蹒跚地站起来 ----lurch v. 蹒跚地走
26. -----furious adj. 暴怒的
27. ----pottery n. (总称)瓷器
28.---- hug n.拥抱
29. ----crush v抱紧, 拥抱着; 压碎, 碾碎, 压服
30. -----glasses n. 眼镜
31.-----lunge at 冲向..
32. -----lung n. 肺
33. -----medication n. 药物
34. -----ailment n. 病痛
35. -----high blood pressure 高血压
36. ----asthma n.气喘
37. -----flick v. 拂来拂去
38. ------back and forth 来回
39. -----serrated adj. 锯齿状的, 有锯齿
40. -----blade n. 刀片
41. ------wrestle v. 摔跤，摔倒
42. ------slice v. 切开
43. ------scalp n. 头皮
44. -----abruptly adv. 突然地，猛然地
45. -----aide n. 助手
46. --------distract v. 分散
47. -------flee v. 逃跑
48. ------commotion n. 骚乱
49. -----wire service 通讯社
50. ------pepper n. 辣椒
51. -----spray v 喷射
52. ------back away 逐渐后退
53. ------assault n. 袭击
54. ----- distract v. 使分散（注意力）
55. ------corridor n. 走廊
56. -------struggles to one’s knees 挣扎地站起来
57. ------wheelchair n. 轮椅
58. ------bedside n. 床边
59. ------peer out n. 向外看去
60. ----- purse n. 手提包
61. ------dweller n. 居民
62. -----canister n. 小盒
63. ------miraculously adv. 奇迹般地
64. -------rip v. 扯裂
65. ------mumble v. 含糊地说
66. ------undergo v. 经历
67. ------vivid adj. 生动的，逼真的
68. ------psychiatric adj. 精神病的
69. ------stitch n. 针
70. ------competent adj. 有能力的
71. ------malicious adj. 恶意的
72. -------count n. 罪状
73. ------fracture v. 断裂
74. ------incredible adj. 难以置信的
75. -----bravery n. 勇敢
76. -----decisive adj. 果断的
77. -----bent adj. 弯曲的
78. -----hallway n. 走廊
79. -----get away 逃走
80. -----pink adj. 浅红色的
81. -----trial n. 审判
82. -----stand v. 忍受
83. ------fall against 靠着。。。
84. ------charge 上诉。。。。。
85. ------arrest v.逮捕
86. ------lean against 倚靠着。。。
87. ------keep after 追赶。。。
88. -------survive v. 幸存
89. -------surrender v. 投降，上交
90. --------for good 永远
91. -------fatal adj. 致命的
92. ------odd adj. 奇怪的
93. ------save sb from sth 使某人免受。。。。。
94. ------staff n. 员工
95. ------shatter v. 打破，打碎
96. -----stillness n. 宁静
97. -----Virginia n. 弗吉尼亚：美国东部的一个州，临近切萨皮克湾和大西洋。
98. ------cheery adj. 愉快的
99. -------head to 朝某地走去
100. -----supervisor n. 主管
第二步，完成以上只是第一步，其实文中不胜枚举的好句子更让我心情澎湃，让我恨不得全部记住，这样我的英文写作水平能不高吗？呵，对吧。我来举例说明一下：
1. shatter the stillness of 打破。。。。。的寂静
2. erupt in anger 勃然大怒
3. Furious, he had told her she couldn’t tell him what to do. 其中furious 形容词作为独立结构，修饰he，大家以后写作时可以多用独立结构。
4. Lurching to his feet, Mohamed grabbed…..其中Lurching to his feet又是一个动名词作状语。
5. Peering out the door, Dow saw man…. 又是一个好句子。
6. Jeanne Hobbs needed 60 stitches. 以后看病可以用上，缝针。
7. Miraculously, the knife had bent. 其中，Miraculously这样的副词要学习一下。
8. The memories were just too vivid. 我们以后形容记忆犹新就可用这个句子。
9. Four residents, all in their 80s or 90s, were also injured. 好句子。
10. human resources 这就是我们常说的人力资源(HR)，很热的。
好了，句子就说到这了，太多了说不完。总之，我坚信精读文章学习非常非常高效！希望大家可以这样精深地学习英语，这才是英语学习的王道！