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n. 课, 课业, 教训



    lesson
    [ noun ]
    1. a unit of instruction

    2. <noun.act>
      he took driving lessons
    3. punishment intended as a warning to others

    4. <noun.communication>
      they decided to make an example of him
    5. the significance of a story or event

    6. <noun.communication>
      the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor
    7. a task assigned for individual study

    8. <noun.act>
      he did the lesson for today


    Lesson \Les"son\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lessoned} (-s'nd); p. pr.
    & vb. n. {Lessoning}.]
    To teach; to instruct. --Shak.

    To rest the weary, and to soothe the sad,
    Doth lesson happier men, and shame at least the bad.
    --Byron.


    Lesson \Les"son\ (l[e^]s"s'n), n. [OE. lessoun, F. le[,c]on
    lesson, reading, fr. L. lectio a reading, fr. legere to read,
    collect. See {Legend}, and cf. {Lection}.]
    1. Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or
    learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a
    pupil to be studied or learned at one time.

    2. That which is learned or taught by an express effort;
    instruction derived from precept, experience, observation,
    or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a
    lesson in drawing.`` A smooth and pleasing lesson.''
    --Milton.

    Emprinteth well this lesson in your mind. --Chaucer.

    3. A portion of Scripture read in divine service for
    instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson.

    4. A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.

    She would give her a lesson for walking so late.
    --Sir. P.
    Sidney.

    5. (Mus.) An exercise; a composition serving an educational
    purpose; a study.

    1. The first two tales unfold from the point of view of small boys learning the oldest lesson in the book, that humans pay a price when their desire or greed interrupts nature's course.
    2. For the one great lesson of the war is that the conventional defense of Europe is inadequate and that, therefore, the nuclear threshold is unacceptably low.
    3. A government social worker arrives to offer a lesson on home finance and the rules of a free housing market.
    4. This is a lesson Saddam has absorbed only partially, if it all.
    5. The lesson from Denmark is that current procedures are not acceptable and the flow of information between voters and the centre is inadequate.
    6. He got an early lesson when he helped deliver his sister Tuesday on the kitchen floor of his home after his mother went into sudden labor.
    7. Another major lesson, Mr. Shultz said, is that only officials accountable to Congress or the American electorate should be allowed to carry out the types of operations that Mr. Reagan's national security staff apparently executed independently.
    8. The terrorists long ago learned the lesson that with hostages in hand, the U.S. political culture will reflexively stand strategy on its head by making any judgments about military engagement subordinate to the hostage issue.
    9. The lesson here is that the free market has limits.
    10. This was also the lesson of the Tower Report, and the message behind Bud McFarlane's opening remarks yesterday.
    11. It is a good lesson for Valentine's Day.
    12. In a speech in Zurich, Switzerland, he said devaluations during the 1930s offered the lesson "that the problems of the major currencies are inextricably linked."
    13. Mr. Nixon lists three lessons that the U.S. should have learned from the Vietnam war, but he omitted the most important lesson, which is that a democracy should not engage in a war without the support of its people.
    14. It reads, "Comrade Gorbachev, take a lesson from Bush: Be resolute." A chemical engineer, Alexander Taraykin, asks that Mr. Gorbachev follow the example of Abraham Lincoln in keeping his union together.
    15. There is no telephone." The lesson, he said, is that communism doesn't work. "Communism is a foreign idea to Mongolia.
    16. No Conservative minister has forgotten the lesson of those events.
    17. Dr. Mahathir has been teaching his rivals a lesson in the power of incumbency.
    18. If nothing else, it's a lesson in Economics 101: University of Texas junior Chuck Falgout invested $21 in lecture notes and turned a possible F into a B in biology.
    19. China State Construction Engineering Corp. came here a year ago figuring this was the perfect spot for a lesson in capitalism.
    20. We continue to believe that for the future of the Republic, the main lesson in Iranamok is not that presidents sometimes make misjudgments, but that coups have to be resisted.
    21. Saddam's lesson came in his failed attempt to ease international fears about the safety of Western hostages in Iraq and Kuwait. Instead, he provoked outrage by releasing a videotape that showed him patting the heads of cringing British boys.
    22. Recently, an East Coast climbing instructor who forgot to tie the knot on his harness during a lesson fell 30 to 35 feet, crushing the bones in his heels and breaking his back.
    23. That has been a painful lesson for sellers. Richard Page, of Savills in Sevenoaks, cites two examples.
    24. That, in fact, is the single most important lesson the RTC has learned about marketing real estate.
    25. We adopted a policy of talking to the warders and persuading them to treat us as human beings. And that is a lesson that one of our strongest weapons is dialogue.
    26. The criminal America must realize it will not get away with what it has done, especially in connection with the hostages we hold, so that will be a lesson to whoever strikes at the dignity and glory of our people and mujahedeen (holy fighters).
    27. A U.S. Air Force transport plane on Saturday made a "candy drop" to sweeten a history lesson for about 100 German children during a re-enactment of the Berlin Airlift 40 years ago.
    28. "The lesson we're learning is that the complexity of the universe is something you'll never imagine without looking at it," U.S. Geological Survey geologist Laurence Soderblom said Tuesday at a final news briefing on Voyager 2.
    29. It is a lesson his colleagues in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations learned in bitter Vietnam experience.
    30. Mr. Miyazawa noted that similar forces were at work in Japan's "bubble economy" of the 1980s, resulting in soaring land and stock prices; the recent collapse of that speculative bubble "gave the whole nation a lesson," he said.
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