learn /lɜːn/ CET4 TEM4 ( learning, learned, learns )

• 1. 

  V-T/V-I If you learn something, you obtain knowledge or a skill through studying or training. 学习

  例：

  Their children were going to learn English.

  他们的孩子们打算学英语。

  例：

  He is learning to play the piano.

  他正在学弹钢琴。

  例：

  It's going to be tough, but these guys learn quickly.

  这会很难，但是这些家伙们学得很快。

• 2. 

  learning N-UNCOUNT 学习

  例：

  ...a bilingual approach to the learning of English.

  …英语学习的双语法。

• 3. 

  V-T/V-I If you learn of something, you find out about it. 得知

  例：

  It was only after his death that she learned of his affair with Betty.

  是在他去世之后她才得知他和贝蒂的风流事。

  例：

  It didn't come as a shock to learn that the fuel and cooling systems are the most common causes of breakdown.

  不足为怪的是，燃料和冷却系统是故障的最常见原因。

• 4. 

  V-T If people learn to behave or react in a particular way, they gradually start to behave in that way as a result of a change in attitudes. 学会

  例：

  You have to learn to face your problem.

  你得学会面对自己的问题。

• 5. 

  V-T/V-I If you learn from an unpleasant experience, you change the way you behave so that it does not happen again or so that, if it happens again, you can deal with it better. 从…吸取教训

  例：

  I am convinced that he has learned from his mistakes.

  我确信他已经从错误中吸取了教训。

  例：

  I just hope we all learn some lessons from this.

  我只是希望我们都能以此为戒。

• 6. 

  V-T If you learn something such as a poem or a role in a play, you study or repeat the words so that you can remember them. 学会

  例：

  He learned this song as an inmate at a Texas prison.

  他在德克萨斯监狱服刑时学会了这首歌。

• 7. 

  → see also learned, learning

• 8. 

  to learn the ropes →see rope