英语阅读：《新概念英语》第三册英译英 L1 A Puma at large 3

如果下面的英语你“读起来”感觉：没有中文翻译根本“读”不了，或者只能“读”成中文的话，看来我们的“英语阅读”离真正的“没有语言环境照样能说英语，用英语”差距还不小。

一、课文

for the descriptions given by people who claimed to have seen the puma were extraordinarily similar. 

The hunt for the puma began in a small village where a woman picking blackberries saw 'a large cat' only five yards away from her. 

二、给自己“用”英语，“说”英语的锻炼机会

1) for the descriptions given by people who claimed to have seen the puma were extraordinarily similar. 

1.When we say the discriptions given by people,we can also say People gave discriptions of something.

能用英语“说”英语就可以避开“”只有说中文意思才能理解了”。“英语阅读”要我们练的就是这个能力，而不是“”英译汉”能力。那是“另外一种”英语学习，但是，不是“英语阅读”。

2.A discription of something is you say what something or someone looks like.

3 When you say He is as big as a bear,you're discribing him,you're telling us what he looks like.

能这么“用”英语的时候，“再说”中文显然就“多余”了。不是吗？

4.If something is extraordinarily similar,it is very very similar,meaning almost the same.

“英语阅读”要的就是这个能把学过的英语“用起来”的能力，当然不是英译汉能力。

2) The hunt for the puma began in a small village

1.When we hunt for something or someone,we look for them,we search for them.

英语已经“说”到这样的程度，离开中文“英语死不了”。

2.So,the hunt for the puma began means the search for the puma began.The looking-for the puma began.

3) where a woman picking blackberries saw 'a large cat' only five yards away from her.

1.A woman picks blackerries,she can also pick apples in the garden,pick vegetables on the farm,pick rice in thevfield(你继续接龙).

2.only five yards away from her

If someone or something is only five yards away from you,the distance between you and them is only five yards.

“用”中文翻译only five yards away from her就没有机会“一用”英语distance between等等了，英语就变得“只学不用”，“学而不用”，“学用脱节”。