Charlotte"s Web Vocabulary夏洛的网

家有英文原版娃一枚。

英文原版阅读是英文水平提高的利器。

不过问题是，如何通过原版阅读如何有效拓展词汇量呢？

我的最后的体会是，利用身在海外的资源，孩子读哪本书，就做哪本书的词汇笔记，看完书后再看词汇，不知不觉词汇量就上去了，还不需要吭哧吭哧的背单词。孩子省事， 我费心。

学习了海外最新的单词记忆办法，就是图文并茂，图片加英文释义，用英语思维和视觉直观让孩子对这个单词的记得牢固。

For one thing,……

[phrase] used to introduce a reason for what you have just said

I was a kid who judged a book by its cover, and the cover of Charlotte’s Web made me nervous. For one thing, the pig looked worried. For another, the girl seemed stoically resigned to whatever it was that the pig was worried about.

resign yourself to (doing) something

[phrase] to make yourself accept something that is bad but cannot be changed

At sixteen, I resigned myself to the fact that I’d never be a dancer.

pasture

[n] land or a field that is covered with grass and is used for cattle, sheep etc to feed on

hoghouse hog+house

[n] a shed in which hogs are kept

A hog is a large pig that is kept for its meat.

pitchfork

[n]a farm tool with a long handle and two or three long curved metal points, used especially for lifting hay (=dried grass)

pitch pitched pitching [v]

The hay was pitched to the cows and the horses and the sheep.

set the table SYN lay the table BrE

[phrase] to arrange plates, knives, cups etc on a table so that it is ready for a meal

Her mother was setting the table for breakfast.

do away with somebody/something

[phrase]① to get rid of something or stop using it

People thought that the use of robots would do away with boring low-paid factory jobs.

②[informal] to kill someone

“It’s very small and weak, and it will never amount to anything. So your father has decided to do away with it.”

case

[n] an example of a particular situation or of something happening

“This i