1. 这是个什么词?
词:idea
英英释义:the aim, intention, or purpose of doing something
例句:The idea of Phenomenal English is to help students to learn how to learn and enjoy English.
2. 为什么选这个词?
“idea”是可数名词,我们非常熟悉它作“主意”的意思,今天来学它的另一个意思:“目的”。作这个意思它的用法比较简单,一般会说 the idea of/behind something is,我们可以用 idea 来替换 aim 和 purppse。下面我们通过几个例子掌握它的用法。
公司组织的这次出游目的是为了让新员工增进对彼此的了解,可以说:
The idea behind the outing is to encourage new employees to get to know each other.
现象级英语的目的是让英语学习者学会学习英语,并爱上英语,就可以说:
The idea of Phenomenal English is to help students to learn how to learn and enjoy English.
某一个扑克牌游戏的目的是把牌全部出完,可以说:
The idea of the card game is to get rid of all your cards.
下面来看《经济学人》中的几个例子:
1)Dramatic make-up is likely to attract more attention from other people than it deflects from machines. HyperFace is a newer project of Mr Harvey’s. Where CV Dazzle aims to alter faces, HyperFace aims to hide them among dozens of fakes. It uses blocky, semi-abstract and comparatively innocent-looking patterns that are designed to appeal as strongly as possible to face classifiers. The idea is to disguise the real thing among a sea of false positives. (注意第五句话中的 the idea is to 和第三句话中的两个 aim to 用法相同)
2)Haidian district, where Zhongguancun is located, recently opened a business park dedicated to fostering Chinese chip companies. The idea behind Zhongguancun IC Park (the IC stands for integrated circuit), according to Wu Chunyan, one of the park’s sales team, is that it will smooth the way for new chip companies, and not just through subsidised rents.
3)The new rules will enable managers to hire more easily from the private sector for short-term projects and longer contracts. The promotions committees will be relegated to judging contested cases. The idea is to give managers more freedom and responsibility, a change that Mr Dussopt calls “very profound”.
3. 怎样学会使用这个词?
1)翻译下面的句子:
这个夏令营的目的是教会孩子如何省钱。
(参考翻译:The idea behind the summer camp is to teach children to save money.)
2)结合自己的生活、学习、工作、兴趣等,想象在什么语境下会用到这个表达。先简要描述这个场景,再造句。
例子: The idea of the project is to make more poor kids to read.
场景: