扩充词汇量专家有妙招

Hi this is Laura Turner and today we are going to talk about how to improve your vocabulary. I'm a writer and I have been a writer since I was a very tiny little girl and every time I've ever read a book, I have improved my vocabulary. So number one for improving your vocabulary is to read. Read as much as possible in fact read books that are difficult to read.
嗨，我是劳拉·特纳，今天我们谈谈如何扩充你的词汇量。我是一个作家，当我是一个小女孩的时候就开始写作了。每当我读一本书的时候我的词汇量就会增大。因此首先要扩充词汇量就要阅读。读的越多越好，而且书越难越好。

For example, The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner. And when you read, take the words that you do not understand and look them up in the dictionary. And figure out, and there is a word that I found in this book particularly was difficult for me to figure out what it meant, fecund, fecund means sort of from the earth and fertile ok. So therefore that word is used a lot in this novel so I went and I looked it up and now I know that word forever, because the novel is very long and it was used many times.
比如，威廉·福克纳的《喧嚣与愤怒》。当你阅读这本书时，找出你不知道的词然后查词典。这本书有个单词我很难理解，fecund，fecund意思是来自土壤而且肥沃。这个单词在这个小说里用了很多次，我查过它后我再也忘不掉了，因为这本小说很长，见到这个词的次数很多。

Second thing you can do is play games, play games like scrabble, play games like cranium, things like that will help you to improve your vocabulary and will be fun for you to do. Number three, take a Latin class. Learning Latin will help you learn the roots of words that you use everyday and therefore will help you be able to figure out what other words mean that you do not know. Just by judging from the roots of the words that you see.
第二就是通过玩游戏来增加词汇量，像拼字游戏、脑经急转弯等，这样的游戏既有趣又能帮你扩充词汇量。第三，学习拉丁文。拉丁文能有助于你对词根的了解，因此你可以对即使不认识的词也能猜出其含义，仅仅从词根就可以知道意思。

And number four is write, write and look up words that you want to use if you feel like you need a better word for a certain sentence or situation, go to your thesaurus and actually you know find a word that you do know and look up therefore other words that you don't know. And use them. And use different words frequently. You can also buy things like a little word a day calendar, stuff like that will help you. And there are plenty of ways to improve your vocabulary and those are just some of them.
第四就是写作，如果你想用更好或更合适的词来写句子，查词典，找一个你不知道的词，再查查别的你不认识的同义词。经常用不同的词写作。你还可以买一些每日一词的日历，类似这样的东西能帮助你记忆单词。其实有很多种扩充词汇量的方法，这里只是其中一些。