Hector spent the winter learning how to cope with his blindness.
那个冬天赫克托都在学习如何适应失明的生活。
The teacher’s task is to help the pupil learn.
老师的任务是帮助学生学习。
learn (something) from somebody
I learned a lot from my father.
我从父亲那里学到了很多东西。
learn about
Kids can have fun and learn about music at the same time.
小孩子可以在学习音乐的同时得到乐趣。
learn what
Youngsters must learn what is dangerous and what is not to be feared.
小孩子必须要知道什么有危险,什么不要害怕。
The student will learn from experience about the importance of planning.
学生将从经验中学到制订计划的重要性。
5Don’t say that you ‘learn someone something’ or ‘learn someone how to do something’. Use teach: I taught him how to send an e-mail.
不要说 learn someone something 或 learn someone how to do something’。要用teach: I taught him how to send an e-mail.我教他怎么发送电子邮件。
nGRAMMAR: Patterns with learn
You learn to do something:
She’s learning to play the piano.
You learn how to do something:
She is learning how to play the piano.
✗Don’t say: She is learning playing the piano.
2find out 发现 [intransitiveI, transitiveT] formalFIND OUT to find out information or news by hearing it from someone else or reading it 获悉,得知,听到SYN discover
I didn’t tell her the truth. She would learn it for herself soon enough.
我没有告诉她真相,很快她自己就会知道的。
learn of/about
He learned about his appointment by telephone yesterday.
昨天他从电话里得知自己被任命的消息。
learn (that)
Last week I learned that I was pregnant.
上个星期我得知自己怀孕了。
She was surprised to learn that he was a lot older than she had thought.
她惊讶地发现,他比她认为的要年长很多。
learn whether/who/why
I waited to learn whether I’d secured a college place.
我在等待大学录取的消息。
We have yet to learn who will be the new manager.
我们还不知道谁将成为新经理。
3remember 记住 [transitiveT]LEARN to get to know something so well that you can easily remember it 背熟,熟记,记住SYN memorize
The actors hardly had time to learn their lines before filming started.
演员们几乎没有时间记台词电影就开拍了。
4change your behaviour 改变行为 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]LEARN to gradually understand a situation and start behaving in the way that you should 认识到,意识到
learn (that)
They have to learn that they can’t just do whatever they like.
他们必须明白做事不能随心所欲。
learn to do something
Young hairdressers must learn to treat the client as a person, not a head of hair.
年轻的发型师必须认识到要把顾客看作是人,而不只是一头头发。
I’ve told him a hundred times not to bully people, but he never learns.
我都跟他说了一百次不能欺负别人,可他从来都不明白。
learn from
You have to learn from your mistakes (=understand why what you did was wrong).
你一定要从自己的错误中吸取教训。
the lessons learned in the Gulf War
从海湾战争中吸取的教训
5somebody has learned their lessonLEARNused to say that someone will not do something wrong or stupid again, because they suffered as a result 某人已经得到教训
I’ve learned my lesson; I’ve now got a burglar alarm and a guard dog.
learn (something) the hard way• But, as Server shows us, he learned apathy the hard way.• I learned this the hard way.• She had learned it the hard way and she never let her guardslip at all.• The Lisa designers also learned this the hard way, and their computer shipped with 1024K, or a megabyte of memory.• I learned that the hard way, by losing a couple of first drafts of articles I was writing.• I learned the hard way that drugs weren't an answer to my problems.• Early on he learned - the hard way - that it was the passport to success.• He learned this the hard way, when he tried to move his head.• Mainlinemedicinelearned this the hard way when it first started to use anesthetics.
7.that’ll learn sb!spoken used when something bad has just happened to someone as a result of their actions, especially when they ignored a warning 这可以给某人一个教训!
learn to gain knowledge of a subject or skill, especially by being taught or trained 学习;学到;学会
How long have you been learning Italian?
你学意大利语多久了?
At what age can you learn to drive in America?
在美国要到什么年纪可以学开车?
study to learn about a subject by reading books, going to classes etc, especially at school or university 〔尤指在学校或大学〕学习,攻读
She’s studying music at Berkeley College in California.
她在加利福尼亚的伯克利学院学习音乐。
train to learn the skills and get the experience that you need in order to do a particular job 〔为了做某工作〕受训练[培训]
Julie’s training to be a nurse.
朱莉正在接受培训,准备当护士。
pick something up to learn something without much effort, by watching or listening to other people 〔轻松〕学会某事
It’s easy to pick up a language when you’re living in a country.
在一个国家生活,很容易就能学会那里的语言。
The rules of the game are easy – you’ll soon pick them up.
游戏规则很简单,你很快就能学会。
get the hang of something informal to learn how to do or use something that is fairly complicated, especially with practice 〔尤指通过练习〕学会做某事,学会使用某物〔指相当复杂的事物〕
It took me a while to get the hang of all the features on my new camera.
我花了点时间才学会使用新相机的所有功能。
reviseBritish EnglishBrE, reviewAmerican EnglishAmE to study facts again, especially on your own, in order to learn them before an examination 〔考试前〕温习,复习
Jenny’s upstairs revising for her Maths exam tomorrow.
珍妮在楼上为明天的数学考试复习。
master to learn something so well that you have no difficulty with it, especially a skill or a language 掌握〔尤指技巧或语言〕
She gave me a book called ‘Mastering the Art of French Cooking’.
她给我一本书,叫做《掌握法国烹饪艺术》。
I learnt Spanish for years but I never really mastered it.
西班牙语我学了很多年,但一直没能真正掌握。
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learn• I'm going to try to learn 12 new words each week.• Before you sail, you need to learn about basicboatcontrols.• Our children attend the group twice a week to learn about Sikhism.• Have you learned anything from the experience?• How long have you been learningGerman?• As an actor, she always had troublelearning her lines.• On this course, you will learn how to deal with communication problems.• How long did it take you to learn how to do this?• Dad taught us a Sanskritprayer, and we had to learn it off by heart and say it every day.• I've been trying to learn my lines, but I haven't gotten very far.• He felt that his son needed to learn some hard lessons about life.• I had learnt that as a woman, if your talents are ignored at work, you must be assertive.• I soon learned that it was best to keep quiet.• Never lend money to your friends - that's something I learnt the hard way.• I doubt if we will ever learn the truth.• If you have a good memory you can learn things by rote, but can you apply it in practice?• Do you think you can learn this tune for Friday's performance?• By sharing their problems, sufferers of the diseaselearn to cope with the symptoms.• His daughter's learning to drive.• Gradually, I learned to trust her.
learn (how) to do something• Chloe explains it takes a few days to learn how to breastfeed.• Didn't you learn to drive when you were 15?• Severaltechniques have been developed to teach demandfeeding to adults, to help them stop dieting and learn toeat normally.• How does the child learn toheed the warning?• Ed might have learned tolead.• Again David may have learnt a valuable lesson - children need to learn how to select friends who are good for them.• Brownlearned to play guitar, violin, harmonica, piano, mandolin, viola and drums.• The child can never learn to play without the parent playing with the child.• Therefore they do not learn tosolve their own problems through an awareness of the process of spirit.
learn of/about• I had learned about a minorsiegeconnected with an important river crossing not far from my home.• In the WhoUs Who section, you learn aboutfamous scientists.• I learned of her deathyesterday.• You should also remember that you too have safety needs and you should learn aboutpotentialdangers to yourself and other staff.• The students are learning about the actual job what the requirements are, what the expectations are.• But why did we have to wait 30 years to learn about them?• In the years to come they had much to learn about themselves; their managerialidentity was just beginning to take hold.• He learned about where the money came from and where it went, its excitingProtestant predictability.• I have developed a theory to explain recentincidents in the light of what I have learned about you.
learn ... lines• It's time for the synthetic actors to start learning their lines.• The fact could not be avoided: Michael Banks could no longer learn lines.• The only way for it to look any different is for Michael to learn the bloody lines.• He had little patience with learning lines, a habit which spread to members of his company.• Do not learn your lines, as this can make the talk rather stilted unless you are a competent actor.• On another part of the movie lot, Charlie Schlatter was learning his final lines of the drama.• George Birkitt got lazy about learning his lines too.
learn (that)• For all that I have learned a greater variety of games, there are fewer I can tolerate.• You hardly had to learn a thing.• But now I see he was totally useless to learn from.• Their goslings never learned how to migrate, and their descendants live on.• She should have learned long ago not to take him seriously.• A lot can be learned simply from the way a patientchooses to interpret a dream.• Children learn to speak and understand speech first and without the formalinstruction needed when learning to read and write.• They learn to talk without workbooks, homework lessons, curriculumguides, tests, or assignments.