Communication is one weapon that can help you climb the success ladder in every sphere of your life, be it your personal life or your professional life. For effective communication, you need to express your thoughts with the right words at the right time, and for this you need to have a strong vocabulary.

　　無論在個人生活還是職業(yè)生涯里，交際都是幫你一步一步登上成功階梯的武器。想讓交流更有效，你就必須確保能在合適的時間選擇合適的單詞來表達(dá)自己的想法，因此你需要有強(qiáng)大的詞匯量。而同等學(xué)力英語考試，難度在四六級之間。無疑是需要掌握一定的詞匯量的。

　　You must have wondered how some people are so good with their words while others fumble to express themselves due to lack of words. No one is born with it; they acquire it in the course of their life. Some do it naturally and faster than the others while others go a little slow and there are some who never do it, may be because they don’t know how to do it.

　　你肯定好奇為什么有的人能對單詞應(yīng)用自如，而有些人在表達(dá)自己時卻詞窮不已。沒有人天生就能做到，大家都是在成長過程中不斷學(xué)習(xí)掌握的。有些人能很自然快速的學(xué)會，而有些人總是進(jìn)步緩慢，還有些人更是一輩子都學(xué)不會，因為他們不知道如何去學(xué)。

　　Here are a few ways to improve your vocabulary to a great level.

　　掌握了下面的方法，你的詞匯量能上一個大臺階哦。

　　1. The first thing is to go back to your childhood and teach your mind to be as open as a child so that it can take in any new word that it comes across.

　　首先要做的就是回到童年之心，告訴自己要像孩子般學(xué)習(xí)所有遇到的生詞。

　　A child is ever inquisitive and always eager to learn. If it does not understand a thing, it never hesitates to ask for an explanation. We should train our brain in the same fashion.

　　孩子永遠(yuǎn)都充滿好奇，渴望學(xué)習(xí)。如果不明白什么，永遠(yuǎn)都毫不猶豫的要求解釋。我們需要訓(xùn)練自己的大腦回到這樣的境界。

　　It is tough for an adult brain to learn a new word and remember it as a child can because their mind is comparatively empty and can easily store these new words. However with little and regular exercise, an adult brain can also teach itself to make space and open up his mind for new words.

　　小孩的頭腦相對來說較空，較易記住這些生詞，然而大人學(xué)習(xí)和記住生詞的過程要比小孩困難的多。但只要堅持小練習(xí)，也能在成人的大腦里空出一部分來記住生詞。

　　2. Words have greater retention when accompanied with related visuals. For instance, it is easier to remember names of persons whom we have met face to face rather than those whom we have only heard of or talked to over the phone. Therefore it would be a good practice to associate any new word that you come across with some sort of visuals.

　　單詞形象化了以后要好記得多。比如，記住那些已經(jīng)見過的人的名字，遠(yuǎn)比記住那些我們只是在電話里聽過或談及的人名要容易的多。因此把生詞和某些視覺效果聯(lián)系在一起是記住它們的好辦法哦。

　　3. Another great exercise is to take note of any new word that you come across while reading. Now it is told that reading is a great habit to increase one’s vocabulary.

　　另外一個實用練習(xí)就是記下所有閱讀過程中遇到的生詞。很多人都說閱讀是提高詞匯量的好習(xí)慣。

　　However, one does not always understand every word one reads. So, it is a good practice to note down any unfamiliar word that you come across to look it up in the dictionary later on. While reading you can also try to understand an unfamiliar word relating it to the context, if you can not access a dictionary.

　　但是人們不可能熟知里面的每一個單詞。所以記住那些你碰到的生詞，稍后查字典是一個好辦法。同時如果沒有手頭沒有字典的話，閱讀還能訓(xùn)練你通過上下文猜出生詞的含義。

　　4. When you are looking up for a new word, it always helps when you elaborate on its explanation. You can look up for its synonyms and antonyms, that is, words that are similar and also opposite of the new word.

　　查生詞時，總是能看到關(guān)于它的詳細(xì)解釋。能同時查到它的近義詞和反義詞，也就是和生詞意思相近或相反的單詞。

　　For example, “enormous” whose synonyms are “giant”, “huge” and its antonyms are “small” or “little”. You can also look up for homonyms in which two words have similar spelling and pronunciation but have different meanings.

　　比如，“enormous”的近義詞是“giant”，“huge”，反義詞是“small”或“little”。你還可以查查它的同音異義詞，即拼寫發(fā)音一樣，意思卻不同的詞。

　　5. When you come across a new word, you can find out the different ways and context in which it can be used. Therefore looking up for the word’s usage helps in understanding the word more easily which helps in recapitulation of the word when needed.

　　遇到生詞時，你可以找到它的不同用法和使用語境。找到這個詞的用法能幫助你更好的去理解，還能讓你在合適的時候用上它。

　　6. Experiments have proved that relevancy of any word helps in memorizing. For example, the word “nocturnal” which means active at night can be related with any nocturnal animal like an owl or a cat.

　　研究顯示，任何與生詞相關(guān)的東西都能幫助記憶。比如單詞“nocturnal”表示夜間的，可以和任何夜行動物比如貓頭鷹或貓聯(lián)系起來記憶。

　　7. There are several vocabulary games that can be made use of to increase your vocabulary and again having fun. There are many word games which will help you increase your word power.

　　還有些詞匯游戲能讓你擴(kuò)大詞匯量的同時不會覺得乏味。還有很多的單詞游戲能幫你提高單詞運(yùn)用的能力。

　　8. If nothing else works try repeating the words, an age old method of memorizing. You can either read them loudly several times or make repeated use of it in your conversations.

　　如果都沒用的話，還是用最老的記憶方法，不斷地重復(fù)單詞吧。你可以大聲地多讀幾次或是在對話中經(jīng)常使用。www.rucedu.cn　　Though these eight methods are tried and tested and very effective, they are not the only ones. One can have one’s own unique way of increasing word power which is the ultimate goal of these exercises, that of increasing one’s stock of words.

　　上述八種方法都已被實驗證實過，也的確十分有效，但也無需都照此學(xué)習(xí)。你可以有自己的獨家秘訣來擴(kuò)大詞匯的使用能力，從而擴(kuò)大你的詞匯量。