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Lesson 20 · One Day without a Score

文体:学习日记 · 朗读音轨 20

本课插图:One Day without a Score

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听听没有分数的阅读,为何让主人公更记得故事。

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My language app gave me a daily score, a streak, and a place on a class leaderboard. At first these numbers encouraged me. Later, I found myself opening the app simply to protect the streak, even when I was too tired to understand the lesson.

On a Sunday I turned off the display and read an English comic borrowed from a friend. I looked up a few expressions and laughed at a scene I would have missed before. There was no score for that hour. Yet I remembered the story better than many exercises I had completed quickly.

The next week I returned to the app. I still used its reminders, but I checked the score less often. I wrote a note beside it: “What did I understand today?” Sometimes the answer was a grammar pattern; sometimes it was why a character had changed her mind.

A number can help track practice. It cannot contain every kind of learning. I wanted the score to serve my reading, rather than my reading to serve the score.

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  1. My language app gave me a daily score, a streak, and a place on a class leaderboard.

  2. At first these numbers encouraged me.

  3. Later, I found myself opening the app simply to protect the streak, even when I was too tired to understand the lesson.

  4. On a Sunday I turned off the display and read an English comic borrowed from a friend.

  5. I looked up a few expressions and laughed at a scene I would have missed before.

  6. There was no score for that hour.

  7. Yet I remembered the story better than many exercises I had completed quickly.

  8. The next week I returned to the app.

  9. I still used its reminders, but I checked the score less often.

  10. I wrote a note beside it: “What did I understand today?”

  11. Sometimes the answer was a grammar pattern; sometimes it was why a character had changed her mind.

  12. A number can help track practice.

  13. It cannot contain every kind of learning.

  14. I wanted the score to serve my reading, rather than my reading to serve the score.

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语言学习应用每天给我分数、连续打卡天数和班级排行榜名次。起初,这些数字鼓励了我。后来,即使疲惫得看不懂课程,我也只为保住连续打卡而打开应用。

一个星期天,我关掉这些数据显示,读起朋友借我的英文漫画。查了几个表达后,我被一幕情节逗笑了;以前我也许根本看不懂。那一小时没有分数,我却比匆匆做完许多练习时更记得故事。

下周,我又回到应用,仍使用它的提醒功能,却不那么频繁地看分数。我在分数旁写下:‘今天我理解了什么?’有时答案是一个语法规律,有时是某个人物为什么改变主意。

数字能帮助记录练习,却装不下所有学习收获。我想让分数为阅读服务,而不是让阅读为分数服务。

本课重点词语

以下是本课重点词语的中文讲解;英文正文中有虚线的单词可悬停查看词义和发音。

daily score
每日得分;应用量化练习。
streak
连续打卡;主人公想保住纪录。
leaderboard
排行榜;显示班级名次。
encouraged
鼓励;数字起初有激励作用。
protect
保住;后来只为维持打卡。
expressions
表达;读漫画时查了几个。
exercises
练习;匆匆做完不一定记得牢。
pattern
规律;可以是当天的收获。
track
记录;分数可追踪练习量。
contain
包含;数字装不下所有学习。
背景知识

打卡、积分可以帮助维持练习,却可能让目标变成保住数字。主人公重新把理解故事和语言表达放在中心,保留有用提醒而降低对排名的依赖。

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