Oscar Impactimpact

：The impact that something has on a situation， process， or person is a sudden and powerful effect that it has on them.?

from The Economist

They say that time changes things， but you actually have to change them yourself. When “you” change， everything else changes. 人們總說時(shí)間能改變一切，但事實(shí)上我們必須靠自己去改變。自己變了，其他一切也才會(huì)變。

Your smile determines how you see and think about the world around you. 你的笑容決定了你怎樣看待和面對你周圍的世界。

“THE ARTIST” was shown in just 662 American cinemas before it received multiple nominations in this year’s Academy Awards.multiple：多重的，復(fù)式的；nominate：If you nominate someone to a job or position， you formally choose them to hold that job or position；academy：Academy is sometimes used in the names of schools and colleges， especially those specializing in particular subjects or skills， or private high schools in the United States；award：An award is a prize or certificate that a person is given for doing something well. But success has changed all that， and the silent French comedycomedy：A comedy is a play， film， or television programme that is intended to make people laugh.， which won the Oscar for best picture， can currentlycurrent：當(dāng)前的，普遍的。 be seen in 1，756 theatres. It has grossedgross：Gross means the total amount of something， especially money， before any has been taken away. almost $38m to date， with 67% of those receipts earned since the nominations. Something similar happened with other recent winners of the bestfilm award. Last year’s victor， “The King’s Speech”， and the 2008 winner， “Slumdog Millionaire”， earned respectively 57% and 68% of their gross revenues postnomination.respectively：Respectively means in the same order as the items that you have just mentioned；revenue：Revenue is money that a company， organization， or government receives from people. Some films that did not win this year， such as “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” and “The Descendants” （which were both released late in 2011)， incredible：credible：可靠的，可信的，前綴in表示否定，incredible意為難以置信的；descendant：Someone’s descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them；release：If someone or something releases you from a duty， task， or feeling， they free you from it. have also enjoyed surgessurge：A surge is a sudden large increase in something that has previously been steady， or has only increased or developed slowly. in boxoffice takings since the Oscars. However， as the chart shows， “The Help” （released in August）did not need any help from the Academy.

怎樣提高英語閱讀水平

很多單詞都認(rèn)識，就是不知道它在說什么，怎樣才能看懂英語閱讀？

李璐 Northwestern University Kellogg Business School Student 市場營銷專業(yè)

總結(jié)來說，形成英語思維很重要。初級建議閱讀一些超詞匯量大概30%以內(nèi)的詞匯進(jìn)行閱讀。另外興趣為輔，我建議閱讀的書目是牛津通識讀本，有200多本，言簡意賅，涉及各個(gè)學(xué)科各個(gè)方面。都是大家小書，知識點(diǎn)都是正確的。

另外，我覺得提高閱讀速度只是一種片面的高速求成，反而得不償失。不如先從整體入手，把聽說讀寫全面提高起來，就事半功倍了。如果想要提高整體聽說讀寫，一般持續(xù)就是先掌握聽，然后能夠與情境相關(guān)。具體細(xì)節(jié)就是，不翻譯直接反應(yīng)，得到更直接的圖像信息而不是漢語信息。在看美劇時(shí)，初始先培養(yǎng)對一般語言的反應(yīng)能力，其次是看學(xué)術(shù)型的如耶魯公開課一類，慢慢戒除字幕依賴性。對于句子結(jié)構(gòu)也是如此，重復(fù)使用的句式其實(shí)很有限，在專業(yè)詞匯齊備的情況下，不建議花過多時(shí)間在語法上。至于說，就是反復(fù)練習(xí)和一定要苛求自己的發(fā)音。推薦《標(biāo)準(zhǔn)美語發(fā)音的13個(gè)秘訣》，還有American accent的一個(gè)軟件。在實(shí)際對話中反復(fù)練習(xí)是語音提高最快的。

另外一個(gè)誤區(qū)就是背單詞，要想高速閱讀，單詞量一定不會(huì)低。本人的親身經(jīng)驗(yàn)就是，除非是面對語言考試，否則枯燥的一天背大量單詞是無用功。當(dāng)然，專業(yè)術(shù)語和詞匯需要特別記憶一下，但是這個(gè)范圍的詞匯應(yīng)該不超過2000個(gè)。更應(yīng)該結(jié)合比較適合自己水平的英語書籍來進(jìn)行提高。把不會(huì)的詞匯進(jìn)行猜詞和圈劃，方便后面回憶。這些詞匯不要貪多。最好一天不超過100個(gè)，否則的話就證明你的閱讀材料已經(jīng)超出你目前水平太多。高速閱讀的詞匯在精不在多。凡事求十全十美只會(huì)提升閱讀的門檻，很難有進(jìn)步的成就感，不可求全。

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