美国校园情景会话 9_情景口语

9. learning vocabulary 学习词汇

a: i don't understand why we have to memorize conversations. we need more vocabulary, not pronunciation.
b: don't you think memorizing conversations is a part of learning vocabulary? every time we memorize a conversation, we're memorizing a whole series of contexts. each context tells us one way a word can be used, i know from my own language that i can't always use words by simply looking them up in a dictionary and then putting them into sentences. some words have many meanings. we have to know which meanings go where.

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context (文章或讲话中的)前后文(根据前后文的逻辑可以确定某一个具有多种解释的词或短语的含义)
which meanings go where 哪一种解释讲得通

a：我弄不懂为什么我们一定要记住会话。我们需要的是词汇，而不是发音。
b：你不认为记住会话是学习词汇的一个组成部分吗？每当我们记住一句会话，我们就记住了全部的上下文。而这上下文可以供我们了解一个单词的一种用法。我从自己的语言中意识到，光靠查词典然后把这些词汇拼成句子，并不意味着会正确使用这些词。有些意识有很多解释。我们必须弄清楚在哪种情况下适用哪一种解释。