学习英语：学以致用，还是学而不用

A drum magazine is a type of firearm magazine that is cylindrical in shape, similar to a drum. Instead of rounds being stored flat, as in a more common box magazine, rounds in a drum magazine are stored in a spiral around the center of the magazine, facing the direction of the barrel. Probably the first drum magazine to be patented was the one by Salloum Dahdah in 1862. A precursor to the drum magazine was the Accles drum, used for Gatling guns. The first true drum magazine was invented between 1908 and 1915 for the Farquhar-Hill Rifle, the patent for which can be found here.

长期以来，我们中国人“学习”英语，其思维一直都是处于“认识”的层面而不能向上突破变成“使用”的心态。以上面读到的这些英语为例，大家首先满满想到的必定都是“绕不开”的规律：“这个词的中文什么意思啊?”“那个词的中文是什么意思啊?”等等的初级困惑。这就是所谓的“认识”的心态。光是“满足”这些疑惑就把所有学习时间精力耗尽，穷于应付之际，哪里还有精力护理让自己的英语做“使用”的向上突破?

我们必须从这个心态切换到“使用”心态：

或者说，如果这个“认识”心态对学习者必不可少，也要在满足这个“认识”心态后(单词都不认识还谈什么别的呀?)，继续切换到“使用”心态。长期以往锻炼自己，你就会让所有英语老师破产!