每天堅(jiān)持15分鐘 學(xué)會(huì)英語(yǔ)不是夢(mèng)

Your boss has a bigger vocabulary than you have.

That's one good reason why he's your boss.

This discovery has been made in the word laboratories of the world. Not by theoretical English professors, but by practical, hard-headed scholars who have been searching for the secrets of success.

After a host of experiments and years of testing they have found out:

That if your vocabulary is limited your chances of success are limited.

That one of the easiest and quickest ways to get ahead is by consciously building up your knowledge of words.

That the vocabularyl of the average person almost stops growing by the middle twenties.
And that from then on it is necessary to have an intelligent plan if progress is to be made. No haphazard hit-or-miss methods will do.

It has long since been satisfactorily established that a high executive does not have a large vocabulary merely because of the opportunities of his position. That would be putting the cart before the horse. Quite the reverse is true. His skill in words was a tremendous help in getting him his job.

Dr.Johnson O';Connor of thee Human Engineering Laboratory of Boston and of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, gave a vocabulary test to 100 young men who were studying to be industrial executives.

Five years later those who had passed in the upper ten percent all., without exception, had executive positions, while not a single young man of the lower twenty-five per cent had become an executive.

You see, there are certain factors in success that can be measured as scientifically as the contents of a test-tube, and it has been discovered that the most common characteristic of outstanding success is "an extensive knowledge of the exact meaning of English words".

The extent of your vocabulary indicates the degree of your intelligence. Your brain power will increase as you learn to know more words. Here's the proof.

Two classes in a high school were selected for an experiment. Their ages and their environment were the same. Each class represented an identical cross-section of the community. One, the control class, took the normal courses. The other class was given special vocabulary training. At the end of the period the marks of the latter class surpassed those of the control group, not only in English, but in every subject, including mathematics and the sciences.

Similarly it has been found by Professor Lewis M.Terman, of Stanford University, that a vocabulary test is as accurate a measure of intelligence as any three units of the standard and accepted Stanford-Binet I.Q.tests.

The study of words is not merely something that has to do with literature. Words are your tools of thought. You can't even think at all without them. Try it. If you are planning to go down town this afternoon you will find that you are saying to yourself:"I think I will go down town this afternoon." You can't make such a simple decision as this without using words.

Without words you could make no decisions and from no judgments whatsoever. A pianist may have the most beautiful tunes in his head, but if he had only five keys on his piano he would never get more than a fraction of these tunes out.

Your words are your keys for your thoughts. And the more words you have at your command the deeper, clearer and more accurate will be your thinking.

A command of English will not only improve the. processes of your mind. It will give you assurance; build your self-confidence; lend color to your personality; increase your popularity. Your words are your personality. Your vocabulary is you.
Your words are all that we, your friends, have to know and judge you by. You have no other medium for telling us your thoughts-for convincing us, persuading us, giving us orders.

Words are explosive. Phrases are packed with TNT.A simple word can destroy a friendship, land a large order. The proper phrases in the mouths of clerks have quadrupled the proper phrases inthe mouths of clerks have quadrupled the sales of a department store. The wrong words used by a campaign orator have lost an election. For instance, on one occasion the four unfortunate words, "Rum, Romanism and a Rebellion" used in a Republican campaign speech threw the Catholic vote and the presidential victory to Grover Cleveland. Ears are won by words. Soldiers fight for a phrase."Make the world safe for Democracy." "All out for England." "V for Victory." The " Remember the Maine" of Spanish war days has now been changed to "Remember Pearl Harbor."

Words have changed the direction of history. Words van also change the direction of your life. They have often raised a man from mediocrity to success.

If you consciously increase your vocabulary you will unconsciously raise yourself to a more important station in life, and the new and higher position you have won will, in turn, give you a better opportunity for further enriching your vocabulary. It is a beautiful and successful cycle.

It is because of this intimate connection between words and life itself that we have organized this small volume in a new way. We have not given you mere lists of unrelated words to learn. We have grouped the words around various departments of your life.

This book is planned to enlist your active cooperation. The authors wish you to read it with a pencil in your hand, for you will often be asked to make certain notations,to write answers to particular questions. The more you use your pencil, the more deeply you will become involved, and the deeper your involvement the more this book will help you. We shall occasionally ask you to use your voice as your pencil-to say things out loud. You see, we really want you to keep up a running conversation with us.

It's fun. And it's so easy. And we've made it like a game. We have filled these pages with a collection of devices that we hope will be stimulating. Here are things to challenge you and your friends. Try these tests on your acquaintances. They will enjoy them and it may encourage them to wider explorations in this exciting field of speech. There are entertaining verbal calisthenics here, colorful facts about language, and many excursions among the words that keep our speech the rich, flexible, lively means of communication that it is.

Come to this book every day. Put the volume by your bedside, if you like. A short time spent on these pages before you turn the lights out each night is better than an irregular hour now and then. If you can find the time to learn only two or three words a day-we will still promise you that at the end of thirty days you will have found a new interest. Give us fifteen minutes a day, and we will guarantee, at the end of a month, when you have turned over the last page of this book, that your words and your reading and your conversation and your life will all have a new and deeper meaning for you.

For words can make you great!

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　　你老板的詞匯量比你的詞匯量大。

　　這是他為什么會(huì)成為你老板的一個(gè)重要原因。

　　這一發(fā)現(xiàn)是在世界各地的語(yǔ)言實(shí)驗(yàn)室里得來(lái)的。它不是那些池有理論的英語(yǔ)教授信口胡謅的，而是那些一直以來(lái)就在探討著成功斬秘訣、精明而又計(jì)求實(shí)際的學(xué)者們發(fā)現(xiàn)的。

　　在經(jīng)歷了大量的試驗(yàn)和多年的驗(yàn)證之后，他們發(fā)現(xiàn)：

　　如果你的詞匯量不大，你成功的機(jī)會(huì)也就不多。

　　最簡(jiǎn)潔而又最迅速的改進(jìn)方法之一就是有意識(shí)地?cái)U(kuò)大你的詞匯知識(shí)。

　　普通人的詞匯量到了二十五六歲左右就幾乎停止增長(zhǎng)了。

　　從那以后要想繼續(xù)嗇詞匯量就必須有一個(gè)精心設(shè)計(jì)的計(jì)劃。隨意安排的、漫無(wú)目的計(jì)劃是不起作用的。

　　長(zhǎng)期以來(lái)人們就有呈個(gè)想當(dāng)然的看法：高級(jí)行政管理人員不會(huì)有很大的詞匯量，因?yàn)樘幉荒莻€(gè)位置上，他有的是機(jī)會(huì)。這未免有點(diǎn)本末倒置了。實(shí)際情況恰恰相反。他的言語(yǔ)技巧對(duì)他獲得那個(gè)職位有著巨大的幫助。

　　約翰遜·歐·康納博士為波士頓的人才管理實(shí)驗(yàn)室和新澤西州霍博肯市的史蒂文斯理工學(xué)院工作，他曾對(duì)100名學(xué)工業(yè)行政管理的年青人做過(guò)一次詞匯測(cè)試。

　　五年以后那些在考試中名列前十位的人全部地、無(wú)一例外地跨上了管理崗位，而考試中位列后二十五名的人中沒(méi)有一個(gè)能當(dāng)上受理人員。

　　你瞧，有一些成功的因素是要以像試管里的物質(zhì)那樣被精確測(cè)量的，而人們發(fā)現(xiàn)，獲得杰出成貴州省的一個(gè)最普遍的要素就是“大量而準(zhǔn)確地掌握英語(yǔ)詞匯”。

　　你對(duì)詞匯的把握程度反映了你的智力水平，當(dāng)你通過(guò)學(xué)習(xí)掌握了更多的詞匯析時(shí)候，償大腦的思維能力也會(huì)嗇。以下事例就可以證明這一點(diǎn)。

　　一所高中的兩個(gè)班被挑選徠做了一個(gè)試驗(yàn)。年齡相仿，所處的環(huán)境相同。每個(gè)班都代表著整個(gè)社會(huì)的一個(gè)完全相當(dāng)?shù)臋M截面。其中一個(gè)班被作為參照班，只上普通班應(yīng)上的課程。另一個(gè)班則附加特別的詞匯訓(xùn)練。到試驗(yàn)期結(jié)束的時(shí)候，后一個(gè)班的成績(jī)，不音是英語(yǔ)成績(jī)，而是每一科的成績(jī)，包括數(shù)學(xué)和自然學(xué)科成績(jī)?nèi)汲^(guò)了參照班的成績(jī)。無(wú)獨(dú)有偶，斯坦福大學(xué)的路易斯·M·特曼教授也發(fā)現(xiàn)，詞匯測(cè)試與三套普遍被人接受的斯坦福·賓尼特標(biāo)準(zhǔn)智商測(cè)試題中的任何一套一樣，可以準(zhǔn)確地測(cè)定智力。

　　詞匯學(xué)習(xí)并非只是某種與文學(xué)有關(guān)的事情。詞匯是思維的工具?；辛嗽~匯你甚至根本無(wú)法思維。你可以試一試。如果你打算今天下午進(jìn)城，你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)你在對(duì)自己說(shuō)：“我候今天下午我要進(jìn)趟城。”不借助詞的話，你就連這樣一個(gè)簡(jiǎn)單的決定也作不了。

　　沒(méi)有了詞匯佻什么決定也作不了，什么判斷也作不成。一位鋼琴家的腦袋中可能想到了一首美妙的曲子，但是如果他的鋼琴上只有五個(gè)音鍵的話，他永遠(yuǎn)也只能演奏出這首曲子的一些破碎的片段。你的文科是你思維的關(guān)鍵。你所掌握的詞匯越多，你的思想就越深邃、越清晰、越準(zhǔn)確。

　　掌握英語(yǔ)不僅可以改進(jìn)償?shù)乃季S方式，它還給你信心，令你自信，帶給你鮮明的個(gè)性，使你更受歡迎。你的用詞反映了你的個(gè)性。所謂詞如其人。作為你的朋友，我們大家都是從你的言辭中來(lái)了解你和評(píng)價(jià)你的。除此以外，你無(wú)法用別的什么交際手段來(lái)告訴我們你的想法——無(wú)法使我們信服，無(wú)法勸服我們，無(wú)法給我們下命令。

　　單詞是具有破壞性的。詞組中則充斥著火藥。一個(gè)簡(jiǎn)簡(jiǎn)單單的詞可以摧垮一份友誼，可以使 一大批訂貨泡湯。售貨員言辭得體的話可以使商場(chǎng)的銷售額翻兩番。況選演說(shuō)者用詞失當(dāng)則會(huì)使他競(jìng)選失利。例如，在一次共和黨的競(jìng)選學(xué)說(shuō)中，因演講者不慎將“離廳古怪，羅馬一塌胡涂主教和叛亂”等詞 連在了一起，結(jié)果羅馬天主教徒都投了格洛弗·克利夫蘭的標(biāo)，讓他贏得了總統(tǒng)競(jìng)選的勝利。戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)也要靠言語(yǔ)來(lái)獲勝。戰(zhàn)士們往往為一句中號(hào)而戰(zhàn)。“為保衛(wèi)世界民主而戰(zhàn)。”“一切為了英格蘭。”“必勝。”西班牙內(nèi)時(shí)代的口號(hào)是“牢記緬因河”，如今已換成“牢記珍珠港”了。

　　詞匯曾改變過(guò)歷史的方向。詞匯也能改變你生活的方向。它們常常使一個(gè)平凡之輩邁向成功。如果你在有意識(shí)地增加著你的詞匯量，你將在不知不覺(jué)中爬到一個(gè)更顯要的位置上，得到這個(gè)新的，更高的位置以后，反過(guò)來(lái)，你又會(huì)有更好的機(jī)會(huì)進(jìn)一步豐富你的詞匯量。這是一個(gè)誘人的、帶給人成功的循環(huán)過(guò)程。

　　正因?yàn)樵~和生活本身有著如此密切的關(guān)系，所以我們采用了一種新的方式來(lái)編排這本小書。我們不會(huì)讓你學(xué)記由一組組毫無(wú)聯(lián)系的詞匯組成的詞匯表。我們將詞匯按照生活的各個(gè)方面組合了起來(lái)。這本書的編排設(shè)計(jì)是建立在你會(huì)積極合作的假想基礎(chǔ)上的。作者們希望你在讀這本書的時(shí)候手里要拿上一支鉛筆，因?yàn)槲覀円竽憬?jīng)常做點(diǎn)筆記，或是將一些具體問(wèn)題的答案寫下來(lái)。你動(dòng)筆的時(shí)候越多，你就會(huì)看得越投入，而你越投入這本書對(duì)你就越有幫助。除了動(dòng)筆之外，我們還會(huì)不時(shí)地讓你動(dòng)動(dòng)嘴——要求你把一些東西大聲地說(shuō)出來(lái)。你知道，我們的確希望你能不斷地與我們對(duì)話。

　　這很有趣。也很容易做到。而且我們還把它弄得像做游戲。我們?cè)跁锛辛烁鞣N測(cè)試手段，希望它們能夠富于刺激性。這是對(duì)你和你的朋友們的挑戰(zhàn)。用這些試題去考考你的熟人吧。他們會(huì)從中得到樂(lè)趣并受到鼓舞，從而進(jìn)一步深入地探索這一令人激動(dòng)的言語(yǔ)領(lǐng)域。書中編排有游戲型的動(dòng)詞健美操，介紹了形形色色的語(yǔ)言客觀存在，還談到了詞語(yǔ)間的游離現(xiàn)象，正是它們豐富了我們的言語(yǔ)，使之富于變化，并形成了現(xiàn)在這樣一個(gè)富有生氣的交際工具。

　　每天都讀一讀這本書。如果你喜歡的話，就把這本書帶在身邊。每天晚上關(guān)燈之前花一點(diǎn)時(shí)間讀上幾頁(yè)書要比時(shí)不時(shí)不定期地花上個(gè)把小時(shí)來(lái)讀要好。即使你每天只騰得出時(shí)間學(xué)兩到三個(gè)單詞——我們?nèi)钥上蚰惚ＷC,30天以后你將會(huì)得到新的興趣。如果你每天花上15分鐘的話，我們就可以保證，一個(gè)月之后，當(dāng)你翻過(guò)了這本書的最后一頁(yè)時(shí)。你的詞匯，你的閱讀能力，你的談話技巧，乃至你的生活都將會(huì)達(dá)到一個(gè)更新和更高的程度。

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