Passage 3
如果说学英语好比盖房子，那么词汇就是那砌房子的砖。虽然那一块块的小“砖头”都很不起眼，但它们却是整栋房屋的基础，少了它们，房屋是不能成形的。
Fifteen Minutes a Day
If your vocabulary is limited，your chances of success are limited. This discovery has been made in the word laboratories of the world.
That one of the easiest and quickest ways to get ahead is by consciously building up your knowledge of words①. The vocabulary of the average person almost stops growing by the middle twenties. And that from then on it is necessary to have an intelligent plan if progress is to be made. No haphazard hitormiss methods will do.
The extent of your vocabulary indicates the degree of your intelligence. Your brain power will increase as you learn to know more words. A command of English will not only improve the processes of your mind. It will give you assurance; build your selfconfidence; lend color to your personality; increase your popularity. Your words are your personality. Your vocabulary is you. Your words are all that we, your friends, have to know and judge you by. You have no other medium for telling us your thoughts―for convincing us, persuading us, giving us orders.
Words are explosive. Phrases are packed with TNT.A simple word can destroy a friendship, land a large order. The proper phrases in the mouths of clerks have quadrupled the sales of a department store. |
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