[转载]《把你的英语用起来！》读书笔记
这本书其实整本看完就记住一个词足矣“透析”，方法记住一句话即可“看英文原著，每两页查一个生词，然后坚持下去”，基本其他的字数就是在解释和补充这一词一句。
本书关注的是如何提高英语水平，而不是应试，所以如果你是急于应试，可以先放放，等考完之后再慢慢补基础。
记得以前有个老师提到过，听说读写四项中，听和读是输入项，比较容易提高，短期可见明显效果；写和说是输出项，不是靠机经或者技巧就能迅速提高的。输出项的提高是随着你英语功底的增加逐步缓慢提升的。这个理论和本书作者提到的理论异曲同工。
作者认为，大量的英文原著的阅读可以潜移默化的影响大脑的记忆和思维模式，从量变引出质变，最终达到提高英文水平的效果。
而我们从小学习英文的方法，非泛读即精读，都不是有效阅读原著的方法。所以作者根据自己的经验和实践总结出了英语学习方法“透析法”。
具体解释透析法之前，首先要区分一下英语层级。“透析法”使用的目标人群是英语水平已经达到了一定的程度，可以着手阅读原著，而不是零基础开始，恨不得一页200个单词，有195个都不认识，省下5个是a, an, the, and...
打基础的学习材料要选播讲类，这种材料不仅有内容，还有解释说明，不仅内容生动有趣，还可以帮你掰开了揉碎了讲明白。
零基础的同学可以选择赖世雄的《美语从头学》，先打好基础。
中级的同学则可以从赖世雄的《赖世雄美语音标》开始学起。看书听CD,跟录音大声模仿，2-3周学完2-3遍。
第二阶段使用ESLPOD（English as a Second Language Podcast),共有800多期，涵盖了生活的各个方面。如果觉得期数过多，也可以选择ESLPOD出版售卖的六本教材（本人已经在淘宝和百度搜过，免费资源无数）。拿到资源后首先听音频，反复听，专心听，认真听；听完读教材，扫教材的生词难句和之前听不懂的地方；然后跟读，读到你可以不看教材跟原音一起，一气呵成的读完，到这种境界，这本教材就可以功成身退了。如果你还想步入巅峰，那就继续模仿发音，直到原音重现。
中高级阶段可以开始练习发音了，推荐教程《American Pronunciation Workshop》（优酷有全套）
本阶段听力也要开始进阶，教材和VOA一类的慢速英语就没必要再听了，基本重听只是为了增加自信。为了进一步提升，可以听原版的有声书（audiobook）。这对于中高级进阶绝对是个挑战，一定要坚持，要顽强的听，努力的听，使劲的听，直到有一天顿悟神功，你就华丽丽的全听懂了。
关于语法，作者强烈推荐了一本已经绝版的书《文法俱乐部》（旋元佑），我在淘宝也看到了，目前只有复印版有售，anyway，能看就行。作者对这本书赞誉有加，本人也追捧的速购了一本，看完发书评。
最后重磅出击，透析法大战英文原著！
经过了以上“摧残”过程，基本你的水平已经在中上等了，透析
法就像是武功心法中的打通任督二脉，让你所学融会贯通。
运用透析法之前，首先要选择原著。顾名思义就是外国人，母语是英语的人写的书。但不是所有的书都适合上手阅读的，老外的文学也有文言文，连人家自己都有看不明白的时候，所以咱们也要慎选，由易到难来阅读。
作者帮忙拉了十本书的单子，另外提供了一个测试词汇量的网站https://www.doczj.com/doc/9819003763.html,（美国学者做的网站，测出来的结果还是蛮准的，后面还有详细的报告）。
接下来就是重头戏“透析法”解读，该方法的核心操作是：每2页查1个生词（手机屏幕调到最大字的那种页面就别算一页了，咱何必自欺欺人），作者说的是16开左右的书，一摊开，左边一页，右边一页，这样的两页，只能查一个生词。
查什么词不限，查完记录下来，每天要坚持读40页，记录20个词，看完再睡。第二天睁眼起床就先复习一遍昨天的20个词汇，复习时间不要超过5分钟。一本书下来，你的词汇量就能增长100-200，而且这些词的语义，在句子中的使用方法你也都记住了。
以上方法有两个核心要点：一是坚持，坚持每天读40页，尤其是头七天；二是克制，克制手欠不能多查生词，尤其是头50页。
为什么选择小说呢，就是希望你能通过句子和上下文的内容去理解，而不是紧靠词典一个个的去查生词，而小说的情节紧凑，让你的坚持不枯燥，当你被情节吸引了，那些生词就不是阻力了。
以上十本书在一年内读完，你就基本出师了，接下来就可以为所欲为的去看原著了，比如《乔布斯自传》《经济学原理》《病理学》等等等等，但方法还是一个：透析，每2页查1个词。
学英语除了方法问题外，最大的阻力其实是自控问题，作者在书中节选了部分《自控力》中的内容，正好本人也在拜读《自控力》，所以这些方法会放在《自控力》的书评里，在此就不多做重复了。
解决了心理问题，作者还想的非常周到，提供了一些时间规划方面的解决方案，这方面本人感觉和作者真的是英雄所见略同，时间都是挤出来的，我们要善加利用碎片时间和业余时间，高效利用每天工
作和生活之外的那两三个小时。
用本人自己的体验举例：
每天4点起床，跑步半小时，洗漱等一小时（女孩臭美）6点之前吃完早饭处理完琐事开始看书。6点-9点，包括地铁中的一小时，一共有3小时读书或学习时间。晚上6点下班回家，9-10点睡觉。
本人已经有几年没看过电视了，一般大众的综艺或口水剧也不常看，记得曾经读过一篇报道，里面评价了靠电视学习知识和技能的效率相比之下是最低的，因为是被动接收信息，大脑一般不会主动去处理，所以学习效果很差。
尝试以上计划之前，本人曾经尝试过利用晚上7-10点这个时间段。但上了一天班已经很累，大脑极度疲劳，无论是注意力的集中程度还是反映速度都非常低效，学习效果很难保证。
对于学习时间，本书作者也建议将时间放在早上，书中还举了丹布朗和亦舒的例子，丹布朗每天4点起床，写作3小时到7点；亦舒每天也是4点起床，写作3小时，然后为丈夫和家人准备早餐。
针对这点，还想再补充一些，之前看过一本书是中岛孝志的《4点起床最养生和高效的时间管理》，其中提到，以中午12点作为分界线，4点起床，你的有效时间相当于其他人的两倍，12点之前有8小时，12点之后又是8小时，所以你每天比其他人多产出的那部分日积月累就会形成巨大的差距。
以上即是本人对于该书的笔记。
《把你的英语用起来》笔记整理
英语句子的核心组成部分——名词短语(noun phrase，简称NP)。从一开始就搞清楚名词短语的构造规则，对于今后的英语学习将是非常重要的。 一、名词短语the core element of a sentence 英语中，短语有很多类，比如动词短语(have been doing)、介词短语(for you)、名词短语(my best friend)等等。其中名词短语最为重要，它是英语造句中不可或缺的元素。 1、名词短语的功能 名词短语的简单定义：名词与它的修饰语一起即构成名词短语。先来看几个简单的例子： ①These red roses are for you . 译：这些红玫瑰是送给你的。 名词短语these red roses在句中充当主语。 ②I have three close friend . 译：我有三个要好的朋友。 名词短语three close friend在句中充当宾语。 ③He is my best friend . 译：他是我最好的朋友。 名词短语my best friend在句中充当表语。 ④There are some red roses on that small table .
译：在那张小餐桌上有一些红玫瑰。 名词短语some red roses在句中充当主语； 名词短语that small table在句中充当介词on的宾语。 以上例句中的名词短语，都包含在英语句子和文章中。可以充当句子中的各个成分。 ※注意：英文中的介词不能单独使用，其后面必须接宾语，所接的宾语往往是名词短语(如例句4)。 the bird in the tree树上的那只小鸟 the map on the wall墙上的地图 the development of China中国的发展 the standard of living生活水平 the south side of the Changjiang river长江南岸 the way to the hotel去旅馆的路 the life in the future未来的生活 名词短语有如此重要的作用，那么这么重要的句子构成要素是怎样构成的呢？下面来详细总结它的构造规律。 2、名词短语的构造 名词短语由名词与它的修饰语一起构成。
英语读后感50字 I read the Chinese version of “Camille” a few years ago. At that time I was deeply moved by the main character Marguerite Gautier. “Camille” or “The Lady of the Camellias” by Alexandre Dumas, fils, is the story of Marguerite Gautier, a young courtesan, or kept woman, in Paris in the mid 1800's, and how she falls in love with a young man, Armand Duval, and then tries to escape from her questionable past. I think Marguerite was right in saying that no one truly cared about her, but only wanted something from her, the only exceptions being Armand and Julie Duprat. Of course, the Comte de G. and Comte de N. wanted her body and appearance. The Duke needed to “wake up and smell the coffee” and realize that she could never replace his dead daughter. If he truly cared, he could have helped her leave her lifestyle without “keeping” her himself. And lastly, Prudence was a blood-sucking leech who used Marguerite almost worse than the men. I also think she was jealous of the fact that Marguerite had so much more courage than herself and someone truly loved her.
清华幼儿英语课文（1A-1B） kinderPower
Kinderpower Kinderpower,happy hour. We are learning kinderpower. We learn to sing.We learn to talk. We learn to play together. Kinderpower,happy hour. We love you.Kinderpower. https://www.doczj.com/doc/9819003763.html,lalala. Lalalala,kinderpower. Kinderpower,happy hour. We are learning kinderpower. We learn to care.We learn to share.
We learn to help each other. Kinderpower,happy hour. We love you kinderpower. Kinderpower,lalalala Lalalala,kinderpower. 1a Unit 1 ALittle Bee (I am little bee. I love honey. Yummy! ) Little bee, little bee, round, round, round. Little bee, little bee, sound, sound, sound. bZzzzzz… 1a Unit 2 Peek-a-Boo Peek, peek, peek-a-Boo Peek, peek, I see you. Peek, peek, peek-a-Moo Peek, peek, I see you. 1a Unit 3 Gobble, gobble (Gobble, gobble, gobble. I’m turkey. Quack, quack, quack. I’m duck.) Gobble, gobble, gobble. Quack, quack, quack.
名词和名词短语（2） 限定词和属格 4.1 限定词 Determiner 在名词词组中对名词中心词起特指，类指以及表示数量等限定的词。 Determiners refer to the words which are used in the pre-modification of a noun phrase which typically precede any adj. that pre-modify the head word. 限定词和形容词区别 Difference between Determiner and Adjective 1.前置限定, 限定词在形容词前面.Determiner usually precede adj. in pre-modification. 2.限定词的选择受中心词影响而形容词不受。The choice of Determiner is determined by the head word but not that of adj. 3.形容词表明中心词的特征，而限定词限定中心词的意义数量。Adj. describe the head word by showing its characteristic while determiner determine the head word by identifying or quantifying. 4.形容词可位于中心词后，而限定词不可。 Adj. can post-modify the head word but not Determiner. 5.形容词有比较级而限定词没有(除few, little, many much 外) 。 Adj. has comparative form but not Determiner （except few, little, many much ）. 4.1.2 Co-occurrence of Determiners Determiner may co-occurrence in the pre-modification of a noun phrase: two or more determiner may modify one and the same head word. Each determiner takes a fixed position , we identify their relative positions in the case of co-occurrence. 定义 考点1 定义
英语读后感(共6篇) 《大卫科波菲尔》英语读后感英语读后感（2） | It is the same as read other novels of Dickens' too to read" David Copperfield", People feel every personage --From protagonist to warder not speaking --It is ready to appear , lifelike. This because Dickens very much can play up angry to a great extent Atmosphere, the method is that the detail is delineated. At the time of writing to Mr.Murdstone teach David such as him, have published a question in this way: "If I go to the cheese shop to buy 4,000 pieces of extra quality cheese in Gloucester ……" he will it shows to be" extra quality cheese of Gloucester" in detail only, but this set off appear personality of Mr.Murdstone vividly even more just --Mechanical, intend to embarrass David. He describes David's banquet, each kind of vegetables is not described well at all in it, Whether and this it make people unable to feel even more vivid too,like in among. Can enter silk enter and deduct detail of describing, it is obvious Dickens one outsight and realize strength better people more like this. He draws support from his pen Tell reader abundant impression of him whether make readers rise and fall of the happiness, 1 / 12
清华幼儿英语课文a b Revised final draft November 26, 2020
清华幼儿英语课文（1A-1B） kinderPower Kinderpower Kinderpower,happy hour. We arelearningkinderpower. Welearntosing.Welearntotalk. Welearntoplaytogether. Kinderpower,happyhour. Weloveyou.Kinderpower. https://www.doczj.com/doc/9819003763.html,lalala. Lalalala,kinderpower. Kinderpower,happyhour. Wearelearningkinderpower. Welearntocare.Welearntoshare. Welearntohelpeachother. Kinderpower,happyhour. Weloveyoukinderpower.
Kinderpower,lalalala Lalalala,kinderpower. 1a Unit 1 A Little Bee (I am little bee. I love honey. Yummy! ) Little bee, little bee, round, round, round. Little bee, little bee, sound, sound, sound. bZzzzzz… 2a Unit 1 Sitting on the Carpet Sitting on the Carpet, 1-2-3. Sitting on the Carpet, you and me. Bunny, stand up. Yeah! Bunny, sit down. Oh! Bunny is dancing all around the town. Sitting on the Carpet, 1-2-3. Sitting on the Carpet, you and me. Piggy, stand up. Yeah! Piggy, sit down. Oh! Piggy is dancing all aound the town. Sitting on the Carpet, 1-2-3. Sitting on the Carpet, you and me. Everyone, stand up. Yeah! Everyone, sit down. Oh!
活着英语读书笔记和感悟 导语：人的幸福要等到最后，在他生前和葬礼前，无人有权说他幸福--出自余华的短篇小说《活着》的自序。下面是的小编为你们整理的文章，希望你们能够喜欢 活着英语读书笔记和感悟 The happiness of man waits until the end, before he is born and before the funeral, no one has the right to say that he is happy -- the self-ordering of yu huas short story, to live. I love this book, because every time when reading this book, I will feel all of the difficulties faced by actually doesnt consider as what, people are always so, if he did not feel the real pain, he would be naive to think he is facing great difficulties, so he was upset and frustrated. Reading this book gives me great courage to pursue the happiness I want. What is happiness? This is what a person is pursuing from life to death, which is also the value of a persons life, but there are still many people who cant find the happiness they want. And I read living after the feeling of the book to talk about my happiness some ideas! What is life for? Or just live to live? Alive, is the most basic nature gives us the potential, the two simple words is full of desire for the life and the
清华幼儿英语KinderPower 语感启蒙（2007版，72首英文童谣完整文本）
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清华幼儿英语课文（3A-3B） kinderPower
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现代英语语法笔记整理 下面是我整理出来经常错误的题目 其中选择题20‘填空题30‘改错题8’句型转换题28‘其余名词解释和问答14‘ 要想及格那么选择题、填空题和句型转换题一定得拿55分以上，此三种题型也较容易拿分 注：名词解释题和简单题不再详述，我会在以上4道题中谈到。 一、选择题（20‘）此节还适合于综合英语二 选择题的题型以及考点： 1．关于by the time 用法 By the time 表示“当…的时候” Eg. By the time the course ends, we will have learnt a lot about market money 像此类题我们通常会做成过去完成时，但这样是错误的 记住这句话： 从句用一般时，主句用将来时。 2.need 的用法 记住它有三种方法 “need”作为实义动词时，通常用法是： 人＋need ＋to do 物＋need ＋doing 物＋need ＋to be done Eg. The recorder needs repairing. Or, The recorder needs to be repaired。 此题考法简单，通常会给出这两个答案中的一个，比如要么给出repairing 要么给出 to be repaired。题目可能会变但这三种用法不会变 3.关于a large number of a large amount of a great deal of a large number of a lot of plenty of numerous much many few little 修饰名词的：a large number of 、numerous、many、 few 修饰不可数名词：a large amount of 、a great deal of、much、 little 既修饰可数和不可数：a lot of plenty of 个人认为只要知道修饰可数的和不可数的就行了，黑体字表示容易错的一定要记住。 4.see的用法，此题型经常考 see 有两种用法 such as: 1. see sb doing sth. 强调看见某人正在做某事,着重动作过程 eg, I saw him drawing by the river then.说明他正在看他画画，强调看画画的过程。 2. see sb do sth. 是看见某人做某事,着重于看见这件事的发生 eg. I saw Dr. Smith enter the operating room a moment ago. 说明他看到过Smith进了手术室了. 5.考倒装： 考倒装的范围相当广，一般有这些词需要倒装 1.虚拟语气的倒装
关于英语的读后感 _读书笔记 英文读后感要按照英文的习惯，文章中的语句时态必须得是一般现在时，即用一般现在时来表达自己的感想和自己的观点。下面是英语读后感，欢迎大家阅读 ! Loves also thoroughly, hates thoroughly also. Repays a debt of gratitude also thoroughly, the revenge is also thorough. This is reads " Christ mountain revenge in me records " after the biggest feeling.China has the proverb is called the " gentleman revenges, ten year not late ", revenges also is needs to conserve strength, certainly is not may act rashly by reason of for a while the state of mind. But Christ mountain count, then was most concrete the motion explains this proverb with oneself. After experiences 14 years in prison, his life essential meaning was pursues ever the family member, ever benefactor and ever personal enemy. After confirmed had to seek person, he certainly did not have like us such which saw in the chivalric fiction novel, held the fist in the other hand cloud " to the benefactor goes through fire or water, again did not hesitate ", assassinated to the personal enemy one sword. He chose his own way.To ever had the graciousness to own ship owner one, he used up it energy, silently supported, by the various way, actually always did not let them know actually own was for repay a debt of gratitude.If he repays a debt of gratitude moving, then his revenge is so the incisiveness, also has several after us calls unavoidably to have the dessert is startled. Helen Keller today read this book, I benefited greatly!"Helen. Keller," This article describes the life of Helen sad but tenacious. The age of one in Helen, she was due to serious illness led to a blind and deaf. But Helen did not give up, still hard to learn, learning to speak. Emperor it pays off, Helen finally learned to talk, admitted to the university, became a world celebrity.Helen Keller difficulties do not retreat, but the courage to overcome difficulties, to me? Once, my father taught me to ride, I always do not mind, falling again and again, failed again and again, always feel impatient and always want to give up, so get in their studies. But after reading this article, Helen Keller brave defeat the disease of the spirit moved me, I am determined to learn cycling. This does not, now riding for me, is simply a piece of cake!Helen. Keller such a waist, self-unyielding, never-give-in spirit, we set an example, her own actions compose a songof life, beautiful music! After reading this novel,I learned something about how British classical upper-class behaved and their standards of choosing spouse.Even in the same family,they had various thoughts about marriage.Jane and Lizzy wanted to marry someone they really loved,while Lydia and Kitty preferred to find someone funny.Their parents thought highly of family wealth,and the young thought it less important.However,most of them still had a ranking
自考《现代英语语法》总结 Chapter One 1.What are the four major types of sentence and what discourse functions are they normally associated with? Statements are normally associated with declaratives and primarily concerned with giving information. Questions are associated with interrogatives and primarily concerned with requiring information. Commands are associated with imperatives and primarily concerned with requiring actions. Exclamations are associated with exclamatives and primarily concerned with expressing the speaker’s impression of something. 2.What are the verbs which transferred negation often occurs with? What is their shared semantic feature? The verbs which transferred negation often occurs with are: think, believe, suppose imagine and expect. They are the verbs that express “opinion”. 3.Explain the differences between a tag question with a final rising tone and one with a final falling tone. With a rising tone, the question expresses the speaker’s neutral expectation of the hearer’s response and invites the hearer to verify the truth of the proposition in the statement. With a falling one, the speaker asks for the hearer’s confirmation of the statement. It can be regarded as similar to an exclamation. Chapter 4 4.Can the definite article be used for generic reference and the indefinite article for specific reference? If they can, give one example for each use. The definite article can be used for generic reference. For example, the panda is a rare animal. The panda here still denotes the whole species. The indefinite artic le can also be used for specific reference. For example, a dog chained at me when I was on my way home last night. Here a dog points to a particular, actual example of the class. Here “a”shows indefinite specific reference. 5.What are some of the constraints that the double genitive is subject to? The second noun in the double genitive almost always refers to persons, never to objects, and the first noun usually has indefinite reference (typically premodified by the indefinite article and the second noun is always definite.) Chapter 5 6.Why do most contemporary English grammarians adopt a two-tense system? Because tense is a verb form. Morphologically only present tense and past tense have their forms of verbs. A language which has no verb forms has no tense. 7.If tense is related to time, what is aspect related to? When ten points to the temporal location of an event or a state of affairs, aspect “reflects the way in which the verb action is regarded or experienced with respect to time.” 8.Why is the past tense often used for politeness? Because the past tense can make a question or a statement or a suggestion less direct. It is more polite to use the past tense on the part of the speaker.
The impression of A Little Princess and Little Women A Little Princess is a touching novel written by Frances Hodgson Burnett—a famous novelist and dramatist. It obviously contains lots of fancied plots, but the parts it talks about creating miracles, can really reach the bottom of my heart. The book can bring me into a world that is more than reality while reading it. The extraordinary story makes me ponder a lot and gives me a deep impression that every girl can be a princess. After reading this outstanding book, I was shocked by Sara, a little girl who suffered such unimaginable pain and tortures, but still had an opposite attitude towards life. What impresses me most is that Sara put on her act of being a princess when she wore thin bottom shoes, wading in the street of London. From my point of view, her spirit of being so strong-minded when she was in hard times is worth admiring. Every girl can be a princess if she can do all I mentioned, no matter she is rich, beautiful or not. To speak truthfully, I cannot do as well as Sara. However, I will exert myself on being a princess mentally. The story of a little princess reminds me a book I read many years ago, called little women. Thestory of little women also impressed me and makes me think a lot. Little Women is a "coming of age" drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is away serving as a minister to the troops. The family, headed by thier beloved Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence, and