2017届高考英语一轮复习完形填空When I first entered university,my aunt,who is an English professor,gave me a new English dictionary.I was __1__ to see that it was an English dictionary,also known as a monolingual dictionary.__2__ it was a dictionary intended for nonnative learners,none of my classmates had one __3__,to be honest,I found it extremely __4__ to use at first.I would look up words in the dictionary and __5__ not fully understand the meaning.I was used to the __6__ bilingual dictionaries,in which the words are __7__ both in English and Chinese.I really wondered why my aunt __8__ to make things so difficult for me.Now,after studying English at university for three years,I __9__ that monolingual dictionaries are __10__ in learning a foreign language. As I found out,there is __11__ often no perfect equivalence (对应) between two __12__ in two languages.My aunt even goes so far as to __13__ that a Chinese “equivalent” can never give you the __14__ meaning of a word in English! __15__,she insisted that I read the definition(定义) of a word in a monolingual dictionary __16__ I wanted to get a better understanding of its meaning.__17__,I have come to see what she meant. |