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| 1 | I/T to gain knowledge or experience of something , for example by being taught 学；学习 |
| a bright girl who is already learning the alphabet 已经在开始学习字母的聪明女孩 |
| What did you learn at school today? 你今天在学校学了什么？ |
| research into how children learn 对儿童如何学习的研究 |
| We’ re learning fractions in maths this week. 我们本周在学习数学中的分数。 |
| | 1a | I/T to gain knowledge or a skill that makes it possible for you to do something 学习（知识或技能） | | I’ m learning a lot of new computer skills in this job. 我做这份工作学到许多新的计算机技能。 | | learn to do sth The children are learning to swim this summer. 孩子们这个夏季正在学游泳。 | | learn how to do sth I want to learn how to dive. 我想学跳水。 | |
| | 1b | T to study something so that you remember it exactly 记住；熟记 | | Your homework is to learn the periodic table. 你的家庭作业就是熟记元素周期表。 | | learn sth by heart (=exactly) It didn’ t take her long to learn her lines by heart. 熟记某事物 | | learn sth by rote (=without thinking about or understanding it) facts learned by rote 死记硬背某事物 | |
| | 1c | I/T to get the experience or knowledge that you need to behave or think in a particular way 获得（经验或知识） | | stereotypes that are learned at an early age 早年学来的种种陈规旧习 | | Children mainly learn by copying adults. 儿童主要通过模仿成人习得经验。 | | learn (how) to do sth You have to learn to be more patient. 你必须学会更加耐心。 | |
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| 2 | I/T to gain new information about a situation , event , or person 得知；获悉；听到 |
| She’ ll go to great lengths to keep you from learning her secrets. 她会想尽办法不让你知道她的秘密。 |
| +about/of We didn’ t learn about the situation until it was too late. 我们得知情况时为时已晚。 |
| +(that) We were distressed to learn that American troops were the targets of the attack. 听说美军部队是受攻击的目标时我们很难过。 |
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| 3 | I/T to improve your behaviour as a result of gaining greater experience or knowledge of something （通过增长见识）改进（自己的举止） |
| His girlfriend’ s left him again. Some people never learn, do they? 他的女友又离开他了。有些人一辈子也不会长进，对吗？ |
| | 3a | to be unlikely to do something stupid or wrong again , because last time you did it something unpleasant happened （从错误中）吸取教训 | |
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