每日一词124/2019.3.14/moral

1. 英英释义：a practical lesson about what to do or how to behave, which you learn from a story or from something that happens to you

2. 理解："moral"可以是形容词可以是名词。它作名词是除了表示“道德”（一般用复数morals，比如“功德”就是public morals）外，还有一个好用、地道的意思——“寓意、教训”。当我们想表达“从某个故事、案例、经历中学到某某东西”时，就可以用moral替换message和lesson。这个词尤其适用于写作中的举例论证，我们在描述完一个例子之后，将例子和观点作关联时就可以使用moral。

比如lesson和message，有些情况下就可以换成moral。

William Zinsser在On Writing Well 中的例句：

One moral of this story is that you should always collect more material than you will use.

掌握这个句式：The moral of this story/case/experience is that …

3.  应用：

1）翻译：我们从这个TED演讲中可以学到的是，要想获得成功，得先学会帮助别人。

The moral of the TED talk is that to succeed we should learn to help others first.

2) 造句：

a. 场景：  经验证明与人讲道理不如与人谈利弊。

b. 句子：The moral of the experience is that you should tell the pros and cons to others rather than reasoning with people.