HowToStudyInCollege_introduction

To the Instructor of the Eighth Edition

致第八版的导师

     Students who are seeking help are not primarily interested in theory, and most of them have little patience with merely inspirational talk.

  寻求帮助的学生不仅仅主要不对理论感兴趣，而且他们大部分对励志谈话没啥子兴趣  

They want practical instruction on how to succeed academically.

他们想要学业上成功的实践指导

They want something that they can readily understand and apply and that works.

他们想要易懂可行而且有用的东西

After a week of classes, they discover that the hit-or-miss tactics that got them through high school are grossly inadequate and inefficient at the competitive college level.

一周的课程下来，他们发现 在高中用的那些漫不经心的方法在大学阶段显得不足而且没啥卵用

So they turn to us for help. Let’s then teach these students proven techniques for studying and learning.

所以他们向我们寻求帮助， 让我们来教这些学生经过验证的学习技巧

How to Study in College is brimming with exciting techniques, based on widely tested educational and learning theory, that have already helped myriad students.

如何在大学学习  这个问题  存在着大量激动人心的技术， 而且基于大量的教育性实验和学习理论 ， 这些都确实的帮助了无数学生

But the tail of theory is never allowed to wag the practical, feet-on-theground dog.

但是理论从不允许 摆布实际情况 

While theory is always implicit and is sometimes given in enough detail to explain the rationale behind a particular technique or reassure the skeptic, it is never presented without explicit applications and never used simply as exhortation.

当理论是含蓄而且足够的详细去解释实际技术或者环节怀疑背后的理性时， 他是以精确应用表达的而且从不像劝解一样简单

After all, the person who needs penicillin is hardly cured by learning the history of antibiotics!

毕竟，需要青霉素的人不能通过学习抗生素的历史得到救治

Because it is so crucial that students learn for the long term, we are wholeheartedly against techniques that stress mere memorization.

因为对学生来讲长期学习非常关键，所以我们完全反对那些仅仅强调记忆的技巧

Such techniques fill the mind with “knowledge” that melts away after a test and leaves learning still to be done.

这些技巧让思想充斥着 知识会在考试后消失而学习还在继续。

The techniques presented in this book result in real learning.

此书中呈现的技巧会帮助你真实学习

And real learning, like a real diamond, lasts.

真实学习就像足钻一样 ， 一颗永流传

Finally, no textbook—no matter how complete or current—is truly useful if it is boring, confusing, or excessively difficult to read.

最后， 教科书不管多么完善或者流行，如果它无聊晦涩极度难懂，它很难做到真正有用

We have worked hard to keep this book well organized and clear, maintaining a conversational tone so that reading it is like having a sincere, person-to-person chat.

我们努力地保证这本书组织有序，简洁，维持一个对话性的语气 所以读这本书就像进行一次真诚面对面的谈话