1learning a skill 学习技能CLASS/LESSON a period of time in which someone is taught a particular skill, for example how to play a musicalinstrument or drive a car 课;课程
piano lessons
钢琴课
have/take lessons
She’s started taking driving lessons.
她已开始上驾驶课了。
lesson in/on
lessons in First Aid
急救课
lessons in road safety
道路安全课程
2in school 在学校British EnglishBrECLASS/LESSON a period of time in which school students are taught a particular subject 一堂课,一节课SYN American English class
Lessons start at 9 o'clock.
九点钟开始上课。
French/physics/art etc lesson
I’ve got a double maths lesson next.
我接下去要连上两堂数学课。
lesson in/on
Andrew gives private lessons in Spanish.
安德鲁教授私人西班牙语课程。
3experience 经验PUNISH something that provides experience or information that you can learn from and use 经验,教训
learn a lesson (=gain useful experience or information) 吸取教训
There were important lessons to be learned from these discoveries.
从这些发现中可以获取重要的教训。
The government has failed to learn the lessons of history.
政府没有吸取历史的教训。
lesson to
The men’s courage and faith is a lesson to us all.
那些人的勇气和信心是我们大家学习的榜样。
Now let that be a lesson to you all (=be careful to avoid having the same bad experience again).
现在你们大家就从中吸取教训吧。
Her fate should be a salutary lesson (=one that teaches or warns you about something).
她的命运应该是一个有益的教训。
4book 书SE a part of a book that is used for learning a particular subject, especially in school 〔课本中的〕课
Turn to lesson 25.
请翻到第25课。
5.church 礼拜RRC a short piece that is read from the Bible during a religiousceremony 〔宗教仪式中选读的〕《圣经》经文
She made a living giving private lessons in English.
prepare a lesson
The teachers spend a long time preparing their lessons.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + lesson
a history/physics/maths etc lesson
I've got a history lesson this afternoon.
a driving/swimming etc lesson
Dad said he'd pay for driving lessons as my birthday present.
a piano/guitar etc lesson
I'd just started classical guitar lessons.
a private lesson (=a lesson specially for one person rather than for a class)
He gave private lessons in mathematics at the weekends.
Examples from the Corpus
lesson• Our experience with the fire will serve as a lesson to the entire state.• We hope that the pictures, done by Kathleen White, one of the authors, will help you in choosinglessons.• Dominic will be having his first driving lesson this Thursday.• She gives English lessons to business people in the evenings.• It was a good lesson in humility, he realized.• But solving the mystery also teaches some important lessons about the era ahead.• It is algebra for today's lesson, my worsttopic in maths.• The lessons which Donaldson has been trying to teach us are reflected throughout the following chapters.• Should we beat them or lock them up until they learn their lessons?• So feel free to fill your children with lessons and morals from this story.
have/take lessons• I have found myself wondering what would have happened if I could have taken lessons from Saul Goodman.• I take lessons twice a week, I really enjoy them.• They included taking lessons for her advanced driving test, watercolourpainting and gardening.• By way of taking lessons in sewing, I have often examined your stitches in my work bag.• His architecture may still have lessons for us.• Incidentally, brother Louis was then taking lessons on the pianoforte.• The majority of kids said they took lessons at home.• Bitterly, they complained: they hatedart; they did not want to take lessons.
French/physics/art etc lesson• His hobby is playing golf and he designed his entry during art lessons at school.• Did anyone know of some one who gave art lessons?• It must have shown up in art lessons first.• I did have one moment of triumph during that year of art lessons.• But these boys do not have swimteam or baseball or sportscamp or art lessons or a list of lawn-mowing clients.• A teacher in the art lesson with children is rather like a conductor with his orchestra.• I could see these art lessons were not going to be any fun.• So that was why I had all those art lessons!
learn a lesson• Retching, vomiting and desperately trying to rub its face clean, the animal learns a lesson it never forgets.• It would progressively develop the Cadbury code of conduct in a non-legalistic way by learning lessons from corporate wrong-doing.• The second time I had a affair, I learned a lesson which was even more valuable, albeit terribly painful.• Apparently, they learned a lesson from the O. J. Simpson criminaltrial by avoidingboring and time-consumingchronological presentations.• There is also a sadinability in governments to learn lessons.• Although the program was only two days, we learned lessons to make us better leaders for years to come.• A spoiled little girl who learns a lesson.• It has more to do with learning lessons, and we were learning ours by the hour.
Originlesson
(1100-1200)Old Frenchleçon, from Latinlectio“act of reading”, from legere; → LEGEND
1period of teaching or learning課時ADJECTIVE | VERB + LESSON | LESSON + NOUN | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤good, interesting好課;有趣的課▸➤boring無聊的課▸➤individual單獨授課▸➤private私人授課▸➤driving, English, geography, history, music, piano, swimming, etc.駕駛課、英語課、地理課、歷史課、音樂課、鋼琴課、游泳課等VERB + LESSON➤attend, go to, have, take上課◇I go to Italian lessons at the local college.我在當地的大學上意大利語課。◇I'm taking driving lessons at the moment.我正在上駕駛課。➤begin, start開始上課◇She started guitar lessons at the age of 38.她 38 歲開始上吉他課。➤give (sb), offer (sb), provide, take, teach(給某人)上課;(為某人)提供課程;教課◇She gives singing lessons.她教唱歌課。◇They're offering free lessons in computing.他們提供免費計算機課程。◇I had to take a biology lesson this afternoon because the biology teacher was away. (BrE) 因為生物老師不在,下午我不得不替他上了一次課。◇He doesn't teach very many lessons these days.最近他教的課不多。➤get上課◇Students get lessons on how to organize their study time.學生們要上如何安排學習時間的課。➤prepare備課◇The trouble is that teachers don't prepare their lessons carefully enough.問題在於老師備課不夠仔細。➤miss, skip錯過課;逃課◇He got into trouble for skipping lessons.他因為逃課有了麻煩。LESSON + NOUN➤plan教案◇She was preparing a lesson plan for a class she was teaching.她正在為所教的一堂課準備教案。PREPOSITION➤during a/the lesson上課期間◇No talking was allowed during the lesson.上課不許交頭接耳。➤in a/the lesson在上課◇You can't expect to learn all there is to know about the subject in a 45-minute lesson.你不能指望在 45 分鐘的一節課上就學到這個科目的所有知識。➤lesson about有關⋯的課◇a lesson about the Civil War有關內戰的課➤lesson in⋯方面的課◇He took lessons in Thai cookery.他上了泰式烹飪課。➤lesson on關於⋯的課◇a lesson on the Roman Empire關於羅馬帝國的課➤lesson with⋯教的課◇They have a lesson with Mrs Evans at two o'clock.他們兩點鐘有埃文斯夫人的課。lesson
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2sth learned through experience教訓;經驗ADJECTIVE | VERB + LESSON | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤basic, big, good, great, important, salutary, useful, valuable基本的教訓;大教訓;有益的教訓;重大的教訓;寶貴的教訓▸➤bitter, hard, painful沉痛的教訓◇It's a hard lesson to learn.這是一個應該吸取的沉痛教訓。➤clear明白無誤的教訓▸➤real真正的教訓▸➤life, moral人生教訓;道德經驗➤object (= a practical example of what you should or should not do in a particular situation)可引以為鑒的實例VERB + LESSON➤draw, learn得出經驗教訓◇What lessons can we draw from this unfortunate experience?我們能從這次不幸的經歷中得到什麼教訓?➤teach sb給某人教訓◇It taught me some valuable lessons about working with other people.它給了我一些與人合作的寶貴經驗。➤apply應用經驗▸➤forget, remember忘記/記住教訓◇We need to remember the lessons of history.我們應該記住歷史的教訓。PREPOSITION➤lesson from從⋯得到的教訓◇There are important lessons to be learned from this mistake.從這個錯誤中能得到一些重要的教訓。➤lesson in⋯方面的教訓◇I had learned a lesson in respecting the privacy of others.我得到了一次教訓:應該尊重他人隱私。➤lesson of⋯的教訓◇It is dangerous to ignore the lessons of the past.忽視過去的教訓是危險的。