learn

learn
(past and past participle learned 或 主英 learnt )
[with obj.]
  1. gain or acquire knowledge of or skill in (something) by study, experience, or being taught
    学习，学会
    they'd started learning French.
    他们开始学法语。
    [with infinitive]she is learning to play the piano.
    她在学弹钢琴。
    [no obj.]we learn from experience.
    我们从经验中学习。
    ■commit to memory
    背，记诵
    I'd learned too many grim poems in school.
    我在学校背过太多压抑的诗篇。
    ■become aware of (something) by information or from observation
    得知，获悉
    [with clause]I learned that they had eaten already.
    我得知他们已经吃过了。
    [no obj.]the trading standards office learned of the illegal network.
    贸易标准局知道了那非法网络。
  2. (archaic or informal)teach (someone)
    (古，或非正式)教导（某人）
    ‘that'll learn you,’ he chuckled.
    “这会教训你，”他咯咯笑着说。
    [with obj. and infinitive]we'll have to learn you to milk cows.
    我们必须教你挤牛奶。
常用词组
learn one's lesson
  1. 见 malice aforethought
派生
learnability
noun
learnable
adjective
语源
  1. Old English leornian 'learn' (in Middle English also 'teach'), of West Germanic origin; related to German lernen, also to lore
用法
  1. In modern standard English, it is incorrect to use learn to mean teach, as in that'll learn youcorrect use is that'll teach youThis incorrect use has been recorded since the 13th century but for a long time was not considered incorrect. Over the centuries it has, for example, been used by writers such as Spenser, Bunyan, and Samuel Johnson. The use did not fall into disfavour until the early 19th century. It is now only found in non-standard and dialect use
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