美語情景對話 第162期:閱讀技巧 Reading Strategy
Todd: So, Alexandra, you're going to be a lawyer.
Alexandra, 你要做律師嗎？
Alexandra: Yes, I am.
對呀。
Todd: Very impressive and you're in law school and you were saying that in law school the reading load is very difficult.
真令人欽佩。你在法學院，而且你剛剛說，在法學院的時候，閱讀的壓力會很大。
Alexandra: Yes, for each class you have to read a few thousand pages over the course of three months, a semester, and it can be very difficult because you have five classes or more depending on your schedule so you end up reading from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep and try not to fall sleep in your book, so that can be difficult, so I try to read for awhile, maybe 50 minutes and take a ten minute break, stand up, walk around the room, and then get back to it or else it's too much information. It won't go in my head.
對呀。一個學期下來，三個月的時間每節課你都必須要讀完幾千頁的書。那太難了，因爲根據課程表來看，一般會有五節課或者更多。那麼你就必須要從睜開眼睛的那一刻一直讀到最終睡覺的那一刻，而且還要試着不要看着看着書就睡着了，所以說那真的是太難了。我試着看大概50分鐘的時間，然後休息10分鐘，站起來，在房間裏走走，然後回去再接着看，否則我根本就看不進去。
Todd: Yeah, how do you retain everything?
對，你是如何記住你看過的內容的？
Alexandra: You just go back. You take notes for every 50 minute block. You stand up at the 10 minute block and stretch, come back and try write down what you read and try to, you know, do small little bullet points of what you read and that sort of keeps it in your mind.
回過頭再想想。每隔50分鐘就做些筆記。休息的那10分鐘起來做做拉伸運動，然後再回去試着寫下你剛剛讀到的東西。你知道的，就是做些你讀到的，或者說是你腦子中記下的那些小點。
Todd: That's a good strategy. Wow. Do you do anything to actually increase your reading speed?
那是個好方法。哇，那你做了什麼提高閱讀速度的事兒了嗎？
Alexandra: No, you can't. With law you have to read each word, because each word has a particular definition. It could be a procedure in a courtroom which has particular steps, so if you omit words, or skip things you might miss the whole point of the case, so you can't speed read as it were. That's why you need to do it, you read for a long time. You just have to be careful and try to take enough breaks to give yourself a rest.
沒有，你做不到的。按常理來說，你必須閱讀每個單詞，因爲每個單詞都有它特定的意義。這可能是有很多特定步驟的法庭審判的其中一步。所以說如果你少看些單詞，或者跳過一些，你都可能會錯過整篇文章的某個要點。所以你不能像之前那樣加速閱讀。那就是爲什麼你需要去做，要閱讀很長時間的原因。你一定要小心，試着給自己些休息時間放鬆一下。
