看美剧英语阅读:The dress is a one of a kind
“读”到这句美剧里的英语,我们需要回答几个问题:
1、你做了什么?借此查英英字典了没有?
2、你会“怎么读”?你“记住”的又是什么(语言):它的中文,还是它的英语?
“学”英语绝对不是仅仅做到“我懂得它的中文什么意思了”就算达到目的了。
一、我们需要养成查英英字典的习惯和能力:
1. 网络字典:One of a kind
unique
这是最简单的查英英字典,虽然也“不需要中文”,而是借助(已知)英语知道了英语one of a kind“什么意思”。但是也是最没效果的方法:你只得到一个英语单词释义,只是“思维碎片”,根本没有由此形成完整的“英语思维”:说一句完整的英语句子(口语)。
2.Free dictionary:One of a kind
a person or thing that is not like any other person or thing
3.Cambridge:One of a kind
3a.the only person or thing of a particular type:
3b.used to describe a product or service that is the only one of its type, or that is very unusual:
不用英语学英语,你就没有机会把学过的英语unique,unusual,only one等同义词“互为理解”“互为解释”。
4.Collins:One of a kind
If you refer to someone or something as one of a kind, you mean that there is nobody or nothing else like them.
在众多的网络英英字典里,我最喜爱的字典之一,就是Collins:它直接就是给你提供一句完整的英语句子(英语思维之谓也!)
二、我们通过“读”美剧The dress is a one of a kind,我们“说的”还是英语:
Okay.I got you.If you say someone or something is one of a kind, you mean that there is nobody or nothing else like them,they are unique,they"re the only one/the best one of its kind,they"re not like any other person or thing
我们的“英语阅读”要的就是我们“会说”这样的英语的习惯和能力。
For example
1.She"s a very unusual woman, one of a kind.
2.I don"t know how we"ll ever replace Mary after she retires. She"s really one of a kind.