作者:
Norman Lewis 出版社: Anchor 副标题: The Complete Handbook for Building a Superior Vocabulary 出版年: 2014-11-4 页数: 528 定价: USD 7.99 装帧: Mass Market Paperback ISBN: 9781101873854
Norman Lewis (born December 30, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York – died September 8, 2006 in Whittier, California) was an author, grammarian, lexicographer, and etymologist. Lewis was a leading authority on English-language skills, whose best-selling 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary published by Pocket Books in 1971 promised to teach readers "how to make words your slaves" in fi...
Norman Lewis (born December 30, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York – died September 8, 2006 in Whittier, California) was an author, grammarian, lexicographer, and etymologist. Lewis was a leading authority on English-language skills, whose best-selling 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary published by Pocket Books in 1971 promised to teach readers "how to make words your slaves" in fifteen minutes a day.
TEASER PREVIEW
What word best describes your personality if you:
• Are interested solely in your own welfare?
• Constantly talk about yourself?
• Dedicate your life to helping others?
• Turn your mind inward?
• Turn your mind outward?
• Hate humanity?
• Hate marriage?
• Lead a lonely, austere existence?
SESSION 1
Every human being is, in one way or another, unique.
Everyone’s personality is determined by a combination of generic and environmental factors.
Let us examine ten personality types (one of which might by chance be your very own) that result from the way culture, growth, family background, and environment interact with heredity.
And, of course, we begin not with the words, but with the ideas.
IDEAS
1. me first
Your attitude for life is simple, direct, and aboveboard—every decisio... (查看原文)
每年一本单词书的计划到了三年。从开始六个月读一本Merriam-Webster Vocabulary Builder韦小绿，中间不知花了多久读完了Verbal Advantage到最后一个月多一点一本Word Power Made Easy. 读下来不认识的词越来越少，感觉自己是比以前提高了一点。作为一个“被鲨鱼和鳄鱼同时咬过...
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1 有用 🌈Mær 2018-11-29 19:36:32
原来这么高分的啊。读过一丢丢
259 有用 奇迹的彬 2017-07-24 16:48:40
读National Geography时看到某个刚背到的生词，那种瞬间惊喜就是最好的回报。
72 有用 莽草酸 2017-07-04 09:12:06
学好一门语言是相当辛苦的过程 就算是中文 一般人写文章的水平又怎么样呢 需要时时勉励自己 坚持下去
3 有用 苏三家的小黑板 2021-01-27 21:48:46
内容，分类和练习都挺好，但装帧非常不适合练习时的书写。
53 有用 赤屿 2016-04-19 11:29:11
坑爹，简直就是《英语说文解字》的简略版啊！
0 有用 Aesm1p 2023-05-29 12:18:47 江苏
书没问题，只是读到一半读不下去了，有点枯燥。
0 有用 Starry 2023-05-25 18:39:08 陕西
words are ideas. Keep learning.
0 有用 悄瞧巧俏 2023-05-23 18:53:30 浙江
韦小白～“成功人士的唯一共同点是拥有丰富的词汇” 对词根的解释读起来很爽，对一些习以为常的词语有了新的见解，比如disaster是古代认为灾难的源头是星星排序不对，比如geology起初是测量地球的几何，ambiguous和equivocal的区别在于前者inadvertently后者purposely。当我看到以前背的朦胧模糊的gre难词在我眼前又清晰地呈现，并且可能永久就刻在我脑子里了，就觉得... 韦小白～“成功人士的唯一共同点是拥有丰富的词汇” 对词根的解释读起来很爽，对一些习以为常的词语有了新的见解，比如disaster是古代认为灾难的源头是星星排序不对，比如geology起初是测量地球的几何，ambiguous和equivocal的区别在于前者inadvertently后者purposely。当我看到以前背的朦胧模糊的gre难词在我眼前又清晰地呈现，并且可能永久就刻在我脑子里了，就觉得这一切太有成就太有意思啦～在解释每个词的时候，作者娓娓道来，同时狂炫词汇量（并夹杂了之前讲的新词来加深我们的记忆）读起来很是享受😎 (展开)
0 有用 黄金黎明 2023-05-22 00:29:57 广东
原来是我用不上的词汇 希望能用上
0 有用 诸子鸣 2023-05-12 13:38:40 浙江
像一位循循善诱的的老友，耐心的陪你用词根来学习单词。在学习的过程中猛然发现他也将如何学习以及为何学习的这整套系统潜移默化的感染给你了。