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Words have changed the direction of history. Words can also change the direction of your life.They have often raised a man from mediocrity to success.
言詞改變了歷史的方向。言詞也可以改變你人生的軌跡。它們常常使人從平庸走向成功。
If you consciously increase your vocabulary you will unconsciously raise yourself to a more important station in life, and the new and higher position you have won will, in turn, give youa better opportunity for further enriching your vocabulary. It is a beautiful and successful cycle.
如果你有意識地增加你的詞匯量，你就會不知不覺把自己提高到生活中一個更重要的職位，而你贏得的更高的新職位反過來又會給你更好的機會來進一步豐富你的詞匯。這是一種美妙而成功的循環。
It is because of this intimate connection between words and life itself that we have organizedthis small volume in a new way. We have not given you mere lists of unrelated words to learn. We have grouped the words around various departments of your life.
正是由于詞匯與生活本身之間有著這種密切的聯系，我們才以一種新的方式編寫了這本小冊子。我們并沒有給你一些彼此不相干的詞匯表讓你死記，而是圍繞著你生活的各個方面 把詞匯加以歸類。
This book is planned to enlist your active cooperation. The authors wish you to read it with a pencil in your hand,for you will often be asked to make certain notations, to write answersto particular questions. The more you use your pencil,the more deeply you will become involved,and the deeper your involvement the more this book will help you. We shall occasionally ask you to use your voice as well as your pencil — to say things out loud. You see, we really want you to keep up a running conversation with us.
本書的設計旨在得到你的積極配合。作者希望你在閱讀本書時手握一支鉛筆，因為我們會經常請你作一些批注，對某些問題寫出答案。你使用鉛筆越多，你參與的程度就會越深，而你參與的程度越深，這本書就會對你越有幫助。除了用鉛筆外，我們偶爾也會請你用一下你的 聲音一大聲說出一些東西。你知道，我們真的希望你和我們保持連續的對話。
