lesson

英 ['les(?)n] 美['l?sn]

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復(fù)數(shù):?lessons;

lesson 課

來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)legere,讀，講，詞源同lecture,-ss,過(guò)去分詞后綴。原義為朗誦圣經(jīng)，經(jīng)文，后詞義通用化。

lesson: lesson: [13] Etymologically, a lesson is ‘something read’ – as indeed the lesson read in church still is. The word comes via Old French lecon from Latin lectiō ‘reading’, a derivative of the verb legere ‘read’ (from which English gets lectern, lecture, etc). The word’s educational sense arose from the notion of a passage of text that a child had to read and learn.
=> lectern, lecture, legible
lesson (n.): early 13c., "a reading aloud from the Bible," also "something to be learned by a student," from Old French le?on, from Latin lectionem (nominative lectio) "a reading," noun of action from past participle stem of legere "to read" (see lecture (n.)). Transferred sense of "an occurrence from which something can be learned" is from 1580s.

1. He learned this lesson the hard way from his own personal experience.: 吃一塹長(zhǎng)一智，他這個(gè)教訓(xùn)來(lái)之不易——是從他自己的親身經(jīng)歷中得來(lái)的。

2. The lesson from all of this is perhaps a broader one.: 從所有這一切中得出的教訓(xùn)可能具有更廣泛的意義。

3. It was the quickest swimming lesson I'd ever witnessed.: 這是我所見過(guò)的最速成的游泳課。

4. His sailing instructor fell overboard and drowned during a lesson.: 他的航海教練在一次訓(xùn)練課時(shí)從船上失足跌入水中，溺水身亡。