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It's fun. And it's so easy. And we've made it like a game. We have filled these pages with a collection of devices that we hope will be stimulating. Here are things to challenge you and your friends. Try these tests on your acquaintances. They will enjoy them and it may encourage them to wider explorations in this exciting field of speech. There are entertaining verbal calisthenics here, colorful facts about language, and many excursions among the words that keep our speech the rich,flexible, lively means of communication that it is.
這很有趣。而且又是這樣容易。我們把它編得像是一種游戲。我們在書中精心設計了許多題目，希望它們具有刺激性。這里是些激勵你和你的朋友的東西。拿這些測試在你的熟人身上試驗一下。他們會喜歡它們的，這也許會鼓勵他們對語言這一令人激動的領域作更廣泛 的探索。書中有引人人勝的詞語操練，有豐富多彩的語言知識，有可供漫游的詞語園地，正是這些詞語使得我們的語言一直像現在這樣成為豐富、靈活、生動的交際手段。
Come to this book every day. Put the volume by your bedside, if you like. A short time spent on these pages before you turn the lights out each night is better than an irregular hour now and then. If you can find the time to learn only two or three words a day — we will still promise you that at the end of thirty days you will have found a new interest. Give us fifteen minutes a day,and we will guarantee,at the end of a month,when you have turned over the last page of this book, that your words and your reading and your conversation and your life will all have a new and deeper meaning for you.
請每天都接觸本書。如果你喜歡就把它放在你的床邊。每天晚上熄燈前花上一點時間讀 幾頁要比沒有規律地偶爾讀一小時好。如果你能擠出時間每天只學兩三個詞——我們仍向你保證，在30天結束時你會發現一種新的愛好。每天給我們15分鐘，我們將保證到一個月結束時，當你翻過這本書的最后一頁時，你的詞匯，你的閱讀，你的會話和你的生活都將給你帶來新的、更深刻的意義。
For words can make you great!
因為詞語可以使你變得偉大！
