American English uses the form learned as the past tense and past participle. British English uses either learned or learnt. 美国英语用learned作过去式和过去分词,英国英语则用learned或learnt。
- VERB 学;学习
If you learn something, you obtain knowledge or a skill through studying or training.
- Their children were going to learn English...
他们的小孩会学英语。 - He is learning to play the piano.
他在学钢琴。 - ...learning how to use new computer systems...
学习如何使用新的电脑系统 - Experienced teachers help you learn quickly.
经验丰富的老师可助你学习快速有成。
- VERB 获悉;得知
If you learn of something, you find out about it.
- It was only after his death that she learned of his affair with Betty...
一直到他死后她才知道他和贝蒂有染。 - It didn't come as a shock to learn that the fuel and cooling systems are the most common causes of breakdown...
燃油和冷却系统是造成故障的最常见的原因,这一点不奇怪。 - ...the Admiral, who, on learning who I was, wanted to meet me.
得知我是谁后想和我结识的海军上将
- VERB 学会(以某种方式行事或反应)
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.
- You have to learn to face your problem...
你要学会面对自己的问题。 - We are learning how to confront death instead of avoiding its reality.
我们在学习如何直面死亡,而非回避死亡这一现实。
- VERB (从…中)吸取(教训)
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.
- I am convinced that he has learned from his mistakes...
我深信他已从错误中吸取了教训。 - The company failed to learn any lessons from this experience.
公司未能从这次经历中吸取任何教训。
- VERB 熟记;记住;背下
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.
- He learned this song as an inmate at a Texas prison.
他在得克萨斯监狱服刑时学会了这首歌。
- See also: learned learning
- to learn something the hard way → see: hard