Cover & Contents

封面主要三句话（除了书名）

1. The most effective vocabulary builder in English language.

• The simple, step-by-step method that will increase your knowledge and mastery of English language.

• The complete handbook for building a superior vocabulary.

这正是我所需要的，背了那么多年单词，到底掌握了多少，确实值得问问自己。很多只知道肤浅的意思，至于灵活应用那就差远了。我也在使用百词斩这样的APP提高自身的词汇量，但灵活应用词汇不是简单背背就好的。你们觉得呢？有什么其它体会可以留言给我。

让我们看看这本书会带来什么，如何高效的构建我们的词汇量，同时玩转(master)英语。虽然本人也是个master，但不是一流的，感觉应该是很弱的那种吧。

列举本书功能点

• Speak and write with confidence.
• Read more effectively and efficiently.
• Learn quickly.
• Develop social contacts.
• Increase your earning power.

前四项的都是为了最后一项做铺垫的，哈哈，看到这一项浑身充满了动力

测试一下

封皮过后的词汇量测试，额，好多单词不认识。尤其是问题中的斜体字，勉强知道几个并猜出几个，其它的就懵了。好吧，这个是词汇量的问题，也是看此书的缘由。
disheveled baffling lenient repulsive audacious......
不全写出了，先略过了，尽快读正文了。

作者序，致

To:
My family and friends, who accepted, without apparent resentment and with barely audible complaint, my complete self-isolation during the many months in which I totally and shamefully neglected them while working on the revision of this book.
Especially: Mary; Margie Baldinger and the kids......
很诚恳的开头，有没有？然后就是一堆堆，要感谢的人名，省略了哈。

目录

How to Use This Book for Maximum Benefit

Part One(Getting Off to a Good Start)

1. How to Test Your Present Vocabulary

• How to Start Building Your Vocabulary
• How to Talk about Personality Types
• How to Talk About Doctors
• How to Talk About Various Practitioners
• How to Talk About Science and Scientists
• How to Talk About Liars and Lying
• How to Check Your Progress: Comprehensive Test I

Part Two(Gaining Increased Momentum)

1. How to Talk About Actions

• How to Talk About Various Speech Habits
• How to Insult Your Enemies
• How to Flatter Your Friends
• How to Check Your Progress: Comprehensive Test II

Part Three(Finishing With a Feeling of Complete Success)

1. How to Talk About Common Phenomena and Occurrences

• How to Talk About What Goes On
• How to Talk About a Variety of Personal Characteristics
• How to Check Your Progress: Comprehensive Test III
• How to Check Your Standing as an Amateur Etymologist
• How to Keep Building Your Vocabulary

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK FOR MAXIMUM BENEFIT

1. this is not a reading book...

Don't read this book!

What！？ 看到此话先蒙三圈，什么意思？
莫急，看后面一句就明白了。

Instead, work with it. Write in it, talk aloud to it, talk back to it--use your pen or pencil, your voice, not just your eyes and mind.

这下明白了吧, 作者为什么不说：Don't only read this book! 这是汉式英语？我们要用此书，大声的说。
如何学习此书以及如何做题

2. �master the pronunciation system!

Saying words aloud, and saying them right, is half the battle in feeling comfortable and assured with all the new words you are going to learn.

大声的朗读出来吧

下面让我 看看此书的音标体系

a. First, master the "schwa"!
The vowel sound of word is said very quickly.
Phonetically respelled, these words are represented as:

Word	Respell
Linda	LIN'-dǝ
mother	MUTH'-ǝr
about	ǝ-BOWT'
different	DIF'-ǝr-ǝnt
idea	ī-DEE'-ǝ

这里的ǝ就是schwa，短元音。

b.Next, understand accent

Word	Respell
conversational	kon'-vǝr-SAY'-shǝn-ǝl
egomaniacal	ee'-gō-mǝ-NĪ'-ǝ-kǝl
altercation	awl'-tǝr-KAY'-shǝn
anthropological	an'-thrǝ-pǝ-LOJ'-ǝ-kǝl

关于重音，一个单词中可能有两个，小写重音要不大写重音发音轻一些。

音标体系后面还有一些说明，但和我们常用的方式区别还是挺大的，这里不久写了，后面如果用到，再说啦

音标体系后面还有一些说明，但和我们常用的方式区别还是挺大的，这里不久写了，后面如果用到，再说啦。

3. a word (words) on western and eastern pronunciation

作者提到了western和 eastern的发音区别（口音）
Nothing so radical here that a person brought up in Brooklyn or the Bronx cannot understand a native of Los Angeles or San Francisco--it's just that each one thinks the other has an accent!
大概就像北京人听山西人说话一样吧，它们的地区口音差异相对汉语还是小了很多。
本书使用西部发音标注，Google一下，美国目前还是依中西部口音为主。作者当年带着口音从NY搬到LA，也是废了半天劲才把口音改过来。

4. why etymology?

本书包含词根学习，包括前缀，后缀和词根

未完待续
目录和相关说明就到此为止了，后面进入正是章节。

暂时没有后面了，因为去看别的了