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用英语用了这么多年，在英语学习上面已经不需要再在乎太多语法发音之类的问题了，因为在我看来那些都已经不会太大影响到英语水平，以实用为标准的话现在学习英语需要提升的主要是欧美的文化习惯和词汇量了。个人认为最好的办法就是认真地在欧美流行的电视剧或电影中学习他们的表达，这样既可以避免学到生僻没用的单词，也可以在一个流畅的语境下学习到新的表达甚至温故知新。

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学习方法

首先一定要建立认知，看剧不是目的，学英语才是目的。只有在心里认知了这个目的，才能在之后的学习中不会急躁，因为我的方法非常慢但也非常稳。简单来说就是每集剧看3遍：

第一遍：无字幕看第一遍，第一遍的目的首先是建立对剧情发展的一个基本认识，另外对哪些部分看不懂的也会有比较清晰的认识，最后这也是建立兴趣的关键一步，因为有了第一遍的“看不懂”的对比，第三遍时“完全看懂”才能提供成就感的反馈，激励自己更长久地学习。

第二遍：对着剧的脚本一句话一句话地看剧，记录不熟悉或者能听能看但不会用的词和表达，我首先会用有道的Collins词典查释义(Collins的特点是将词放在英语的上下文中解释，非常适合非母语者快速了解单词的用法)，如果Colins没有收录才去查其他词典或例句。第二遍这个过程是最痛苦的，有时候一个1小时的剧要看4小时才能看完，实在不行就分几天看完，一定不能急躁。

第三遍：最后再无字幕看一遍，这一遍是最爽的了。看完前两遍第三遍时基本上已经无障碍看剧了，看着剧里那些生僻的表达和含糊的口语都在脑海里清晰地形成文本，这时候就会感觉学习真是太爽了。

学习资源

我的无字幕资源是在这个网站下载的，记得好像也不是免费来着，大家有更好的资源求分享:点击链接

《唐顿庄园》第一季的字幕脚本我是从网上找的: 点击下载

故事梗概

第1季第1集主要体现唐顿庄园的贵族与仆人们生活状态，通过各种小事介绍剧中各主要人物的背景与个性。主要内容是泰坦尼克沉没后导致Lord Robert Grantham的两个继承人去世从而引出的唐顿庄园的遗产继承问题，主要矛盾在于Lord Grantham对第三顺位继承者Matthew不熟悉，家中就是否挑战继承权以将遗产继承给大女儿Mary展开辩论，最后因为Duke of Crowborough的上门让Lord Grantham坚定了维护继承法顺位的意志，并通知Mathew他的继承权。

学习笔记

生词

cease

If something ceases, it stops happening or existing. (At one o’clock the rain had ceased.)
If you cease to do something, you stop doing it. (He never ceases to amaze me.)
If you cease something, you stop it happening or working.(The Tundra Times, a weekly newspaper in Alaska, ceased publication this week.)

handiwork

You can refer to something that you have done or made yourself as your handiwork.(The architect stepped back to admire his handiwork.)

Kedgeree

Kedgeree is a cooked dish consisting of rice, fish and eggs.

dreadful

If you say that something is dreadful, you mean that it is very bad or unpleasant, or very poor in quality. (They told us the dreadful news.)
Dreadful is used to emphasize the degree or extent of something bad. (We’ve made a dreadful mistake.)

mourning

Mourning is behaviour in which you show sadness about a person’s death. (Expect to feel angry, depressed and confused. It’s all part of the mourning process.)
If you are in mourning, you are dressed or behaving in a particular way because someone you love or repect has died. (Yesterday the whole of Greece was in mourning.)

attic

An attic is a room at the top of a house just below the roof.

snuff

Snuff is powdered tobacco which people take by breathing it in quickly though their nose.

speak up

If you speak up, you say something, especially to defend a person or protest about something, rather than just saying nothing. (Uncle Herbert never argued, never spoke up for himself.)
If you ask someone to speak up, you are asking them to speak more loudly. (I’m quite deaf. you’ll have to speak up.)

luncheon

A luncheon is a formal lunch, for example, to celebrate an important event or to raise money for charity. (Earlier this month, a luncheon for former U.N. staff was held in Vienna.)

hail

If a person, event, or achievement is hailed as important or successful, they are praised publicly. (Faulkner has been hailed as the greatest American novelist of his generation.)
Hail consists of small balls of ice that fall like rain from the sky. (… a sharp short-lived storm with heavy hail.)
A hail of things, usually small objects, is a large number of them that hit you at the same time and with great force. (The victim was hit by a hail of bullets.)
Someone who hails from a particular place was born there or lives there. (He hails from Memphis.)
If you hail a taxi, you wave at it in order to stop it because you want the driver to take you somewhere. (I hurried away to hail a taxi.)

daunting

Something that is daunting makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it. (He and his wife Jane were faced with the daunting task of restoring the gardens to their former splendour.)

cemetery

A cemetery is a place where dead people’s bodies or their ashes are buried.

solicitor

In the United States, a solicitor is the chief lawyer in a government or city department.

take on

If you take on a job or responsibility, especially a difficult one, you accept it. (No other organization was able or willing to take on the job.)
If something takes on a new appearance or quality, it develops that appearance or quality. (Believing he had only a year to live, his writing took on a feverish intensity.)
If you take someone on, you employ them to do a job. (He’s spoken to a publishing company. They are going to take him on.)
If you take someone on, you fight them or compete against them, especially when they are bigger or more powerful than you are. (Democrats were reluctant to take on a president whose popularity ratings were historically high.)

eccentric

If you say that someone is eccentric, you mean that they behave in a strange way, and have habits or opinions that are different from those of most people. (He is an eccentric character who likes wearing a beret and dark glasses.)

peculiar

If you describe someone or something as peculiar, you think that they are strange or unusual, sometimes in an unpleasant way. (Mr. Kennet has a rather peculiar sense of humor.)
If something is peculiar to a particular thing, person, or situation, it belongs or relates only to that thing, person, or situation. (Punks, soldiers, hippies, and Sumo wrestlers all have distinct hair styles, peculiar to their group.)

nurture

If you nurture something such as a young child or a young plant, you care for it while it is growing and developing. (Parents want to know the best way to nurture and raise their child to adulthood.)
Nurture can also be a noun where it is care and encouragement that is given to someone while they are growing and developing. (The human organism learns partly by nature, partly by nurture.)

nuisance

If you say that someone or something is a nuisance, you mean that they annoy you or cause you a lot of problems. (He could be a bit of a nuisance when he was drunk.)

chaperones

A chaperon is someone who accompanies another person somewhere in order to make sure that they do not come to any harm.

pry

If someone pries, they try to find out about someone else’s private affairs, or look at their personal possessions. (We do not want people prying into our affairs.)

coy

A coy person is shy, or pretends to be shy, about love and sex. (I was sickened by the way Carol charmed all the men by turning coy.)
If someone is being coy, they are unwilling to talk about something that they feel guilty or embarrassed about. (Mr. Alexander is not the slightest bit coy about his ambitions.)

come off

If something comes off, it is successful or effective. (It was a good try but it didn’t come off.)
If someone comes off worst in a contest or conflict, they are in the worst position after it. If they come off best, they are in the best position. (Some Democrats still have bitter memories of how they came off worst during the investigation.)

dalliance

If two people have a brief romantic relationship, you can say that they have a dalliance with each other, especially if they do not take it seriously.

conscience

Your conscience is the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong. If you have a guilty conscience, you feel guilty about something because you know it was wrong. If you have a clear conscience, you do not feel guilty because you know you have done nothing wrong. (What if he got a guilty conscience and brought it back?)

interlude

An interlude is a short period of time when an activity or situation stops and something else happens.

需要熟悉的词

lit是light的过去式，即点亮。
crouch: 蹲；蹲下
burner: 炉灶
milk train: 早班火车(因为通常运送牛奶的是最早的一班火车)
butler: 管家
cedar-lined cupboards: 雪松木的衣柜
studs: 金属饰纽
hoard: 收藏；贮藏
reluctant: 抗拒
drawing room: 客厅
flatter: 高看；奉承
late husband: 已故的丈夫
swag: 赃物；窗饰
dowry: 嫁妆
entail: 继承权
tongue-tied: 因拘谨而说不出话
in the presence of: 在…面前
comrade: 同伴(尤其指共患难的)；战友
brass: 黄铜
sprinkle on…: 洒在…上
dispiriting: 令人沮丧的
unjust: 不公平；不公正
tenner: 十英镑纸币
turn up: 出现
crippled: 残疾的
tremendous: 巨大的；极好的
glare: 怒视；刺眼的光
vapours: 蒸汽
Be that as it may: 无论如何；尽管如此
merely: 仅仅
clear away: 收拾(餐具)
be content with: 满足于
run off: 逃跑；私奔；复印；喋喋不休
put up with: 忍受
wear out: 精疲力竭
undignified: 不体面的
conservatory: 音乐学院；温室
fern: 蕨类植物
genus: 属（生物分类的）
compromise: 降格；妥协
Holy Grail: 圣杯
speak out: 公开说出；求婚
see to: 照料；办理
slip away: 溜之大吉
slipped the hook: 滑钩
turn in: 睡觉;自首
graceless: 没有教养的
hollow out: 镂空
lump: 块；忍耐

表达方式

None of them will be up for hours. 他们几个小时内都不会起床。
Is your fire still in? 火还燃着吧？
wonders will never cease. 奇迹总会出现。
blacking the stove. 擦亮炉子。
I want the dining room given a proper going-over today. 今天要把餐厅彻底打扫干净。
No rest for the wicked. 永无安宁(出自圣经，指恶人要永受折磨)
There are bound to be others. 肯定还有别人。
When you think how excited Lucy Rothes was at the prospect. 你想想当时Lucy Rothes对去美国的期待
Though he left it in quite a state. 虽然他走的时候留下了一片狼藉(quite a state主要表示状态非常不一般)
rotate the summer and winter stuff. 轮流放夏天和冬天的东西
I will get the hang of it. 我会记住的。(get the hang of… 指掌握…的窍门)
I can’t believe I’ve been passed over for Long John Silver. 不敢相信我居然被一个跛脚海盗抢了职位。
I‘m not entirely sure that he’ll prove equal to the task. 我不太确定他是不是能胜任这份工作。
We were all so fond of him. 我们都很喜欢他。
When my sister died, God rest her soul, I ate my way through four platefuls of sandwiches at one sitting and slept round the clock. 我姐姐走的时候愿她安息我一口气吃了四盘三明治，然后睡了整整12 个小时。
Your father tied the knots pretty tight. 你爸爸把结打得非常死。(指很难有别的方法。)
Don’t catch me out. 别鸡蛋里挑骨头
Is it any wonder if the others' noses are put out? 也难怪别人会说三道四。
I wouldn’t sleep a wink. 我肯定一宿睡不着。
Let’s not gild the lily. 不要多此一举。
Don’t stir 别搅混水（别拱火）
But the honour of Downton is at stake. 但这是赌上唐顿名誉的
Don’t be such a chatterbox, Edith. 别这么多嘴，伊迪丝。
It’s an ill wind. 祸兮福所倚。（指因祸得福）
One swallow doesn’t make a summer. 孤燕不成夏(不要因为出现一件好事，就以为情况好转了。)