精读班小结

阿栓

在一一告诉我要写总结的时候我才意识到已经到了最后一天了，为期28天的百科精读班就要结束了，果然往往充实的日子让人觉得时光飞逝。

I only realized it was the last day of Lady A’s reading class when One-one told me I ought to submit an end-of-the-term class review. Time indeed flies by fast when the days are filled with meaningful activities.

安妮老师是我报名参加精读班的主要原因，之前参加过安妮的写作班真的是为我打开了一扇大门，自己句式的单调和词汇的匮乏暴露无遗，每一个课题都是新的挑战。听说安妮要开精读班便毫不犹豫的报了名，果然不失所望，可以学到的太多太多。安妮安排的课程涵盖了很多内容，从开篇的法律、政府，转变为环境、资源，又转向税务，虽然只有短短28天，却让我对这些方面有了基本的了解。

Lady A heading up the class was the reason I signed up: her writing class prior to this shed light on the cracks in my own writing skills - lack of variation in the sentence structure and a bleak vocabulary. Each of the topics we were asked to write on came up a new challenge there. Hence after that series of mental workout, I didn’t hesitate to sign up when I saw she launched the reading class. For sure I was not disappointed in the rigorousness of the training: a wide coverage of materials from law and government, to environment and resources and then to taxation runs through only 28 days, yet I was able to get a basic grip in each of these fields with intense effort she inspired us into.

这种了解得益于安妮的选文和耐心指导。从经济学人到纽约时报，从雪人到华尔街日报，甚至于长篇的学术论文，选文范围不可谓不广泛。文章的不同长度消除了以往对于字数的偏见，长的未必难懂，短的也不一定浅显；内在的不同逻辑也让我学会了梳理文章的脉络，段落与段落之间的联系构成了文章的骨架，事例与论点的相辅相成又饱满了内容。从一开始啰啰嗦嗦在逻辑图上写好大一段到后来精简语言来突出逻辑的层次，进步了不止一点点。

Such learning efficacy owe thanks to Lady A’s thoughtful selection of materials as well as her patient guiding.  From the Economist, New York Times and the Wal-Street Journal to a big-volume academic thesis, she really gleaned far and wide to put together a well-rounded assortment of articles for us to read. Being exposed to a range of article lengths flipped my previous concept: long articles are not necessarily hard to understand while short ones may demand more digging. I also learned to comb through the fabric of the article by looking for connections across different paragraphs, parsing out the tie between evidence and argument and trying to grasp the central thread of logic. Actually, I was happy to see my progress - from crowding too much details into the mind-maps, to eventually coming up with simple but clear illustrations.

安妮会每天在群里和大家互动，耐心的解决问题，从最开始的授人以鱼，后来慢慢变成授人以渔，教会一个知识点的同时可以解决一系列的问题。这点是我在这些天整理问答的时候体会到的，我发现泛读日的时候问答整理中“内容理解”模块占的篇幅很大，精读日的时候往往“安妮的学习建议和知识补充“板块分量大大增长，最后一个礼拜里安妮也是引导同学自己来解决自己提出的问题，互动教学效果非常棒。

Annie is patient in the way she answers questions and interact with students in the discussion group everyday. And she is methodical - infusing knowledge in the beginning yet gradually revving up our own engines so we could find answers on our own. Sometimes following her instructions on one point could take you to a waterfall of realizations. Through compiling questions and answers everyday as the prefect, I noticed that on the days of general reading, questions concerning comprehension of the content took up the biggest portion while on the days of close reading, lady A would speak more on critical thinking and give background knowledge. In the last week, lady A even tried to get us to find answers ourselves to our own questions in the provided materials. Interactive teaching and learning does wonders.

我在班级开始的时候申请做了酋长，平心而论真的不是很完美，很多时候都没有及时帮笃师解决一些重复的或者琐碎的问题，也有些遗憾。同时也很感谢能有这个机会为大家服务，能认识这么多很努力的学员，希望以后还可以在一起学习啦~

I applied to serve as the class prefect but honestly I don’t think I did a perfect job- I could have tried harder to take off more loads from Lady A’s shoulder. Regrets aside, I am grateful for the opportunity to do some service to our class and to get to know so many wonderful fellow students. I hope to see you all in the next program.

最后当然是希望甘比发展的越来越好，安妮老师可以再开几个班级挥舞小皮鞭啦！举手报名！

I want to conclude with a wish for more successes to Gambition. Hope Lady A could whip up another class or a few new classes, and I would most definitely sign up for them!

又是一次甘比的深刻记忆

SteveY

甘比，好吧，很多人一定不知道是什么。然而就是这个让人一头雾水的东西，承载了我太多的回忆……又一次，点下鼠标，看着打卡成功，突然意识到，又结束了一个班。第八个了吧？这一学期贡献给了甘比，如同找了魔一般，心甘情愿的去跟着笃师。这次，阅读班，师太的又一次精品课程，着实再一次让我大开眼界。

Gambition, well, hold on, you probably don’t know what that is.What I can tell you is, this thingy, this mysterious “place”, is where many memorable moments happened. I click on “clock out”, for the 28th time in this month, while it suddenly occurs to me that I have completed another Gambition class -is it the eighth one I have gone through? Actually this entire term has been dedicated to studying at Gambition, with my mind totally engrossed in the kaleidoscope Gambition coaches laid out before us. In this one that I just “graduated” from, I was once again swept off my feet by Lady A’s exquisite learning design.

曾经很讨厌阅读，一打开，满眼都是生词，总是读一读就读不下去了。然而，参加了安妮的阅读班才知道什么叫水深火热，想当初看个雪人半死不活，成功过度到荆棘雪人成了我放松时的读物，这短短的几天。迎面扑来纽约客，成功活过来后，后面又来一只华尔街日报，在我觉得自己已经练就的不错了，又来一篇学术论文。安妮的班级，从来不缺少虐点，在这28天的枪林弹雨中活下来，收获得不只是学习。安妮本身就很有趣，试想一个讲着单词都能笑出来，还能卖卖萌的人。真的感觉到她对英语的喜爱。而且，在这么多天的学习中，总是在我们需要她的时候，就出来啦^_^

I used to hate reading as the pages would be filled with eye sores - blotches of“new words”, which I can’t bring myself to get along with. So I signed up for Annie’s reading class thinking I could use some instructions but didn’t know what I got myself into... For someone that once would cringe at the thought of reading through any The Economist article, now reading The Economist is just a leisure activity, oh Lady A, how did you do it? What kind of ordeal you have put us through... There were 15-page long New Yorker articles, Wal-Street Journal articles and recently even a 150-page long thesis! You never run out of things to be intimidated by in Lady A’s class, so after 28 days of living with her whip swooshing across your back to push you to work faster and better, you got into formidable shape intellectually, on the premise that you hadn’t died already..  Lady A is actually quite a character : can you imagine she laughs at her own jokes while giving a lecture on tape? Andonce in a while, she acts like a little kid. I could sense her passion for the language though. Besides, she is always there whenever we have questions.

安妮菌，一个强大的菌，挥舞小皮鞭解决你的偷懒，督促着你自己主动阅读，去思考文章的脉络。即便是我这样的懒人，在这么多天下来，看书的气候也会不自觉的思考作者的目的，这么写是为了什么。画了好多思维导图，虽然还是画的很简单，不过也确实让自己的思路变得更宽广了，阅读的兴趣也多了好多。安妮菌平时也会做很多功课，引导我们去自己解决问题。

Lady A, a powerful lady, cracking her whip to “beat” you out of your slack, so you would read actively and with initiatives, so you would think harder on the inner logic and the structure of each article instead of just fiddle with words. Even a slothful person like me, has picked up the habit of considering the intent of the author and the design behind each literary set up, after much work(forced work) in drawing mind-maps(although mine don’tlookthat great..). I was opened up to a wider range of perspectives and my horizon was definitely expanded. I think that is because Lady A does a lot of coaching work, in order to show us the way to solve problems independently, as opposed to just dumping the “right” answers on us.

我衷心的喜欢这个地方，喜欢安妮菌，下次来报我要抢沙发呀！

I really enjoy this place and love Lady A.For the next class coming up I am gunning to be the first one to sign up!

我和思维导图不得不说的那些事儿

子骐

师太这个月主刀阅读班。自上个月写作班切身体会了"脱离舒适区"的神奇后，对于这一传说中会大虐的课程，忐忑之中竟暗含些许诡异的兴奋。（有毒）

Lady Awas the trainer for the Reading class this month. Somehow after last month’s writing class led by Lady A that nudged me out of my comfort zone, I grew a bit of anticipation toward the subsequent reading class, even though rumor had it tobeeven more a torture chamber(I got poisoned..)

事实证明在写作班里，师太还是颇为仁慈的。毕竟写作，你尚有空间天马行空。而阅读，师太用了独门暗器-思维导图，逼迫你从大幅段落中，删繁就简，挤压泡沫。让你由一名随意浏览的读者，逐步代入为认真思考的作者，分析行文架构的目的，体会字里行间的含义。

It turned outrumor had it right:Lady A was considered lenient in the prior writing class compared with this class. With writing, you got a bit of wiggle room to whip up stuff out of your head, whereas with reading, you were bound by the mind-mapping framework Lady A introduced to you. You had to think very hard, to delve deeply into the structure of the articles, squeeze main ideas out of lengthy narratives and extract the big picture out of a sea of details. Gradually, you grow to be a serious reader, not just scanning through pieces in a hit and miss manner - with no apparent purpose before going in and no clue where to dig deeper, but learning to pick apart the content and put together the underlying theme.

当然，听起来很美好的东西经历时一定很残酷。美国政体周的学习，让人完全处于懵逼状态。对着十几页的纽约客，与一帮生词大眼瞪小眼。恰逢那会儿在拉萨度假，蓝天白云下的高反与干燥让人痛苦不堪。但正如身体可以适应高原气候一样，两周后，长篇大论的经济学人竟真的不再那么可怕了。

But there is never a free lunch - good things come with a price. For example,the week of reading on American politics, completely overwhelmed me : faced by a New Yorker article of over 10 pages long, I felt the unfamiliar words were simply staring me down.. And that was during my vacation in Lhasa when I was suffering from altitude sickness, under Tibet’s blue sky dappled with white clouds which really contrasted with the rainy space in my mind.. But just like your body could get used to the altitude eventually, your mind also self adjusts in its capacity to swallow a lengthy article from The Economist.

然而收获不止于此。因为良好思维习惯的形成可以在许多方面收益。无笔记复述就是其中之一。碎片化的词语可以逐步搭建成逻辑图，再通过图去概述内容，会让复述更有条理性。

Of course I reaped more than that, since having a good thinking habit established unlocks the building of many other skills, for example, our ability to re-verbalize information without note-taking, as you can now weave points into a cohesive map in your head instead of trying to memorize scattered pieces.

不得不说的，差不多就这些。另外，师太也是位尽心的陪读者，几乎每篇文章都配有耐心语音讲解，全面细致，尽心尽力。This is pretty much what I got to say. Oh, by the way, Lady A is a head-sheep type of coach: she would not only steer us to go forward with her all-inclusive spoken exposition recorded for almost every article, but also run alongside us, cheering us on.

听说12月师太会开语法班，下一个收获又会是什么呢？

I heard Lady A would start a grammar class, so what new places is that going to take us? hmm..

报名甘比学堂安妮老师的拓展写作课。