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自己的想法，因此你需要有強大的詞匯量。而同等學力英語考試，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用自如，而有些人在表達自己時卻詞窮不已。沒有人天生就能做到，大家都是在成長過程中不斷學習掌握的。有些人能很自然快速的學會，而有些人總是進步緩慢，還有些人更是一輩子都學不會，因為他們不知道如何去學。

　　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習所有遇到的生詞。

　　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.

　　孩子永遠都充滿好奇，渴望學習。如果不明白什么，永遠都毫不猶豫的要求解釋。我們需要訓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，然而大人學習和記住生詞的過程要比小孩困難的多。但只要堅持小練習，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，閱讀還能訓練你通過上下文猜出生詞的含義。