Meaning of BY HEART - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

BY HEART 的意思—超短英文課﹙有字幕﹚

So in English, when you know something by heart,

在英文裡，當你"by heart"地記得一些事時,

it means that you have it memorized.

代表你把它牢記下來了。

It means that you can repeat the words and the sentences

它指的是你能夠背誦出一些你在文章、書本裡學來的字眼和句子，

without having to look at the original document

並且是在不用回頭看原文的情況下

or the book that you learned it from.

When you learn things by heart,

學習東西時能夠記在心中，

it is a good way to learn a language.

是學習語言的好方式。

In fact, you should probably think about

事實上，你應該考慮

memorizing or learning by heart several English passages.

找一些英文篇章去記憶、學習直到倒背如流。

If you're currently reading an English book or novel,

如果你正在閱讀英語書籍或小說，

I highly recommend that you

我強烈建議你去

try to learn a paragraph by heart every other day or so.

嘗試挑一段來背，每隔一天左右背一段。

Just write it out a few times

只需要抄幾次

until you have it completely memorized

直至你把那段記熟了，

and you can repeat it to someone, or to yourself,

並且你可以向某人或對著自己背出來，

without having to look at the page or the book to do it.

不用看著那一頁或課本也能做到。

So I hope that as you continue to learn English,

那麼，我希望你繼續學英文的同時，

that you are learning things by heart.

是把所學的東西背起來了。

It's just a good way to do things,

這是個好的實行，

so you can use those words later in a conversation.

這樣，你之後就可以把那些單詞運用到對話裡了。

We also have the word verbatim.

我們還有另一個單字"verbatim"，

When you repeat something that someone has said verbatim,

你如果"verbatim"地覆述某人所說的話，

it means that you say it using the exact same words

你就是一字不差地再說一次

as the person who original said it,

跟原先說這話的人說的一模一樣。

or maybe you've read a passage from a book

又或你在一本書上讀到一段話，

and you quote the book verbatim

而你"verbatim"地引用它

the next time you are talking to someone.

下次當你跟別人說話時，

You tell them word-for-word

你是一字不漏地告訴他們

exactly what you read in the book.

你在那本書上讀到什麼。

So when you quote something verbatim,

所以，"verbatim"地引用一些東西，

it means that you use exactly the same words

指的是你用跟原文完全一樣的字眼

when you repeat it to someone.

來覆述給別人聽。

So hopefully you're learning a lot of English,

希望你學到很多英文，

and you know a lot of English words and phrases by heart,

並且很多英文的單詞和片語你都熟背了，

that you have them memorized,

你把它們記下來了。

and hopefully, when you repeat them to someone,

希望當你跟人對話想運用這些詞彙時，

you can repeat them verbatim.

你能夠回想起並一字不差地引用。

Anyways, Bob the Canadian here, and you're learning English.

就是這樣啦~ 我是加拿大的Bob，你正在學英文，

I hope you're having a great day.

祝你有個美好的一天。