Alexandra, 你要做律師嗎?
Alexandra: Yes, I am.
對(duì)呀。
Todd: Very impressive and you're in law school and you were saying that in law school the reading load is very difficult.
真令人欽佩。你在法學(xué)院,而且你剛剛說(shuō),在法學(xué)院的時(shí)候,閱讀的壓力會(huì)很大。
Alexandra: Yes, for each class you have to read a few thousand pages over the course of three months, a semester, and it can be very difficult because you have five classes or more depending on your schedule so you end up reading from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep and try not to fall sleep in your book, so that can be difficult, so I try to read for awhile, maybe 50 minutes and take a ten minute break, stand up, walk around the room, and then get back to it or else it's too much information. It won't go in my head.
對(duì)呀。一個(gè)學(xué)期下來(lái),三個(gè)月的時(shí)間每節(jié)課你都必須要讀完幾千頁(yè)的書。那太難了,因?yàn)楦鶕?jù)課程表來(lái)看,一般會(huì)有五節(jié)課或者更多。那么你就必須要從睜開眼睛的那一刻一直讀到最終睡覺(jué)的那一刻,而且還要試著不要看著看著書就睡著了,所以說(shuō)那真的是太難了。我試著看大概50分鐘的時(shí)間,然后休息10分鐘,站起來(lái),在房間里走走,然后回去再接著看,否則我根本就看不進(jìn)去。
Todd: Yeah, how do you retain everything?
對(duì),你是如何記住你看過(guò)的內(nèi)容的?
Alexandra: You just go back. You take notes for every 50 minute block. You stand up at the 10 minute block and stretch, come back and try write down what you read and try to, you know, do small little bullet points of what you read and that sort of keeps it in your mind.
回過(guò)頭再想想。每隔50分鐘就做些筆記。休息的那10分鐘起來(lái)做做拉伸運(yùn)動(dòng),然后再回去試著寫下你剛剛讀到的東西。你知道的,就是做些你讀到的,或者說(shuō)是你腦子中記下的那些小點(diǎn)。
Todd: That's a good strategy. Wow. Do you do anything to actually increase your reading speed?
那是個(gè)好方法。哇,那你做了什么提高閱讀速度的事兒了嗎?
Alexandra: No, you can't. With law you have to read each word, because each word has a particular definition. It could be a procedure in a courtroom which has particular steps, so if you omit words, or skip things you might miss the whole point of the case, so you can't speed read as it were. That's why you need to do it, you read for a long time. You just have to be careful and try to take enough breaks to give yourself a rest.
沒(méi)有,你做不到的。按常理來(lái)說(shuō),你必須閱讀每個(gè)單詞,因?yàn)槊總€(gè)單詞都有它特定的意義。這可能是有很多特定步驟的法庭審判的其中一步。所以說(shuō)如果你少看些單詞,或者跳過(guò)一些,你都可能會(huì)錯(cuò)過(guò)整篇文章的某個(gè)要點(diǎn)。所以你不能像之前那樣加速閱讀。那就是為什么你需要去做,要閱讀很長(zhǎng)時(shí)間的原因。你一定要小心,試著給自己些休息時(shí)間放松一下。