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Hi this is Laura Turner and today we are going to talk about how to improve your vocabulary. I'm a writer and I have been a writer since I was a very tiny little girl and every time I've ever read a book, I have improved my vocabulary. So number one for improving your vocabulary is to read. Read as much as possible in fact read books that are difficult to read.嗨，我是勞拉·特納，今天我們談談如何擴充你的詞匯量。我是一個作家，當我是一個小女孩的時候就開始寫作了。每當我讀一本書的時候我的詞匯量就會增大。因此首先要擴充詞匯量就要閱讀。讀的越多越好，而且書越難越好。

For example, The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner. And when you read, take the words that you do not understand and look them up in the dictionary. And figure out, and there is a word that I found in this book particularly was difficult for me to figure out what it meant, fecund, fecund means sort of from the earth and fertile ok. So therefore that word is used a lot in this novel so I went and I looked it up and now I know that word forever, because the novel is very long and it was used many times. 比如，威廉·福克納的《喧囂與憤怒》。當你閱讀這本書時，找出你不知道的詞然后查詞典。這本書有個單詞我很難理解，fecund，fecund意思是來自土壤而且肥沃。這個單詞在這個小說里用了很多次，我查過它后我再也忘不掉了，因為這本小說很長，見到這個詞的次數很多。

Second thing you can do is play games, play games like scrabble, play games like cranium, things like that will help you to improve your vocabulary and will be fun for you to do. Number three, take a Latin class. Learning Latin will help you learn the roots of words that you use everyday and therefore will help you be able to figure out what other words mean that you do not know. Just by judging from the roots of the words that you see. 第二就是通過玩游戲來增加詞匯量，像拼字游戲、腦經急轉彎等，這樣的游戲既有趣又能幫你擴充詞匯量。第三，學習拉丁文。拉丁文能有助于你對詞根的了解，因此你可以對即使不認識的詞也能猜出其含義，僅僅從詞根就可以知道意思。

And number four is write, write and look up words that you want to use if you feel like you need a better word for a certain sentence or situation, go to your thesaurus and actually you know find a word that you do know and look up therefore other words that you don't know. And use them. And use different words frequently. You can also buy things like a little word a day calendar, stuff like that will help you. And there are plenty of ways to improve your vocabulary and those are just some of them.第四就是寫作，如果你想用更好或更合適的詞來寫句子，查詞典，找一個你不知道的詞，再查查別的你不認識的同義詞。經常用不同的詞寫作。你還可以買一些每日一詞的日歷，類似這樣的東西能幫助你記憶單詞。其實有很多種擴充詞匯量的方法，這里只是其中一些。