學習英語：學以致用，還是學而不用

A drum magazine is a type of firearm magazine that is cylindrical in shape, similar to a drum. Instead of rounds being stored flat, as in a more common box magazine, rounds in a drum magazine are stored in a spiral around the center of the magazine, facing the direction of the barrel. Probably the first drum magazine to be patented was the one by Salloum Dahdah in 1862. A precursor to the drum magazine was the Accles drum, used for Gatling guns. The first true drum magazine was invented between 1908 and 1915 for the Farquhar-Hill Rifle, the patent for which can be found here.

長期以來，我們中國人“學習”英語，其思維一直都是處於“認識”的層面而不能向上突破變成“使用”的心態。以上面讀到的這些英語為例，大家首先滿滿想到的必定都是“繞不開”的規律：“這個詞的中文什麼意思啊?”“那個詞的中文是什麼意思啊?”等等的初級困惑。這就是所謂的“認識”的心態。光是“滿足”這些疑惑就把所有學習時間精力耗盡，窮於應付之際，哪裡還有精力護理讓自己的英語做“使用”的向上突破?

我們必須從這個心態切換到“使用”心態：

或者說，如果這個“認識”心態對學習者必不可少，也要在滿足這個“認識”心態後(單詞都不認識還談什麼別的呀?)，繼續切換到“使用”心態。長期以往鍛鍊自己，你就會讓所有英語老師破產!