ay，而不是He goes to school every day.
汉语中也没有英语中的复数概念，所以你会说I can see two car in the street，而不是I can see two cars in the street.
为了能够说出正确的英语，你不能把你的汉语表达习惯看得那么重。你必须练习正确说英语的方式，直到熟练为止。
从某种意义上说，你必须忘掉在母语中学到的习惯，这样才能更好地掌握一门外语。这很困难，也是你能听到各种英语变体的原因(法国式英语、西班牙式英语、中国式英语，等等)：自己的母语总会在英语中反应出来，并干扰你对英语的掌握。各个方面都有干扰：语音、重读与语调、语法、词汇以及思维方式、解决问题的方式，等等。即使民族间的误解常常也是这一干扰的直接产物。
196. The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English uses 2,000 words for all the explanations and examples in it. How are the words chosen and by what standard?
〖ST〗〖WT〗[ZK)]I dont know which edition of LDOCE you are using. The work was first published in 1978 and has gone into numerous editions. However, the principles behind the defining vocabulary were stated in the earliest version and can be found at the end of the dictionary, even in the latest edition of The Dictionary of English Language and Culture. I will quote only a fragment from the dictionary:
The Defining Vocabulary has been carefully chosen after a thorough study of all the wellknown frequency lists of English words. Furthermore, only the most common and ‘central’ meanings of the words in the list have actually been used in definitions. We have also used a special computer program that checks every entry to ensure that words from outside the Defining Vocabulary do not appear in definitions.
197. I bought many English materials such as 〖STHX〗21st Century, AAA English and TV Guide. How can I use them properly for my study?〖ST〗〖WT〗[ZK)]Just regard them as reading materials, like any other reading materials. This means you can use them for extensive reading, not bothering too much whether you understand all the words you read, but trying to get the meaning from the context. Or you can read them intensively, going through a whole text, or part of a text, word by word, preferably with a good monolingual dictionary. My own preference would be for extensive reading. Remember, the more you read, the more you will consolidate and expand what you know.
198. How to teach yourself English when you have no English courses?
若不上英语课，如何自学英语呢?
Difficult because there is no teach-yourself course I would recommend. Be extremely suspicious of any advertised courses that promise to teach you English in six weeks, etc. They always fail and the advertisers are liars. Why? Because though you can learn to say quite a bit in twelve weeks or less if you imitate what is on an audio-tape, you cannot learn to understand very much at all. Understanding fluent speech in a foreign language requires hours and hours of listening practice. Listening comprehension is the key to the command of any foreign language. That’s one of the reasons why it’s so difficult to learn on your own. There’s also another human reason why it’s difficult. Once you have bought a comprehensive self-study package, it requires enormous self-discipline to work through it. Only learners with exceptional determination are likely to do this. I think the future in self-study will lie with interactive materials, but what can you do in the meantime? Well, clearly you’re not an absolute beginner because you wouldn’t have sent me this question if you were. Listen to broadcast English (the BBC World Service). Watch English-language films on video. Read as much as you can and as often as you can. These activities will do wonders for your English.
我想这比较困难，因为目前没有什么自学教程可供推荐。那些刊登的允诺在6个星期内可实现英语速成之类的广告千万不可相信。那些速成课从不起什么作用，登广告的人是骗子。为什么呢?因为即使你在12个星期内跟着录音带模仿着说英语，虽然能说一些，但你不可能做到彻底地理解它们。理解流利的英语讲话需要长时间的听力练习。听力理解是掌握任何一门外语的关键。这也是为什么自学难度较大的原因吧!另外还有一个在于人的原因：一旦你买了一整套自学材料，你就得做到严格自律，持之以恒，仔细研读它们。只有那些意志特别坚强的学习者才能做到这一步。我认为将来自学要依靠交流性材料，但此间你该怎么办呢?无论如何，你能提出这样的问题，就证明你不是一个英语初学者。你可以听英语广播(如英国广播公司的全球广播)。看英语电影，尽可能地多读，这些做法会对你的英语产生很好的效果。
199. How can I learn so many idioms by heart?
如何才能掌握众多的英语习语?
You can’t, and you will be pleased to hear, you don’t need to. It’s a total waste of time to learn lists of idioms by heart. And even if you do, this will not improve your English at all. What is an idiom, anyway? When people are asked for examples of idioms, they often quote fixed phrases like: It’s raining cats and dogs, the pot calling the kettle black, to add insult to injury, and so on. If you’re interested in collections like this, consult specialized dictionaries like The Longman Dictionary of English Idioms (first published 1979). Even if you learnt this dictionary by heart, your English wouldn’t be much better. The dictionary is for you to consult when you hear someone use this kind of idiom and you fail to understand it. What you should be aiming at is not learning ‘idioms’, but acquiring a command of idiomatic English, which is a completely different matter. This means sounding as much as possible like a native speaker of English when you speak, rather than sounding like someone who is constantly translating from Chinese. To improve your command of idiomatic English, you need to remember that English is a word-order language: that is, the basic order is Subject ｜ Verb ｜ Object ｜ Manner ｜ Place ｜ Time. Any departure from this order makes your English sound unidiomatic and ‘foreign’. If, for example, you say ‘I speak well English’ instead of ‘I speak English well’, you will be breaking a fundamental rule in the English language. Another thing to remember is that English prefers phrasal verbs to ordinary verbs. We tend to say ‘Come in!’ when someone knocks at the door, rather than ‘Enter!’; we tend to say ‘Put out the fire/Put the fire out’ rather than ‘Extinguish the fire’. Phrasal verbs often have idiomatic uses, as well as literal uses: ‘Put the cat out’ is a literal use (= put it out of the house); ‘Put the fire out’ is an idiomatic use (= extinguish). You have to learn phrasal verbs as you encounter them in context. Towards the end of my Essential English Grammar, I list fifteen basic grammar rules. A command of these will ensure that your English sounds idiom
