现象级英语每日一词20180918

参考词典：Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

今日学习单词：count 。

Count 这词算是一个高频词汇了，日常使用很频繁。今天学习的并不是我们所熟知的“to add (people or things) together to find the total number”，而是学习另外一些重要的义项。

1.  to be accepted or allowed officially.

There was a penalty on the play, so the goal does not count. [=the goal is not allowed]

因为比赛中有犯规，所以刚才的得分无效。

2.  to consider or regard (someone or something) in a specified way

I count myself lucky.

我挺幸运的。

常与 as 连用：

I don't count him as my friend anymore.

我和他友尽了。

3.  to be considered or regarded as something

The job is so easy that it hardly counts as work. [=it can hardly be considered to be work]

这份任务太简单了，简直不能称之为任务。

4.  to have value or importance

Every vote counts.

每一票都很重要。

What happened doesn’t count, but how you respond to it does.

重要的不是发生了什么事，而是你如何应对这件事。

常与 for连用：

Her promises don't count for much. [=his promises don't have much value]

她的承诺根本没用。

学到这里，我想起了电影Titanic 中，Jack 盛装出席 Rose 和未婚夫的晚宴，他离开时悄悄地递给 Rose 一个小纸条，上面写着“Make it count”。Jack 爱慕 Rose，期待与她度过一个难忘的夜晚，所以向 Rose 发出邀请，参加底层甲板的舞会。但是环境不允许他口头发出邀请，于是他写了一个小纸条，Make it count。把握机会！最终结果大家都知道了。

近期重启英语学习，心态发生了很大的变化。尽管心中有一个具象的目标，但是我觉得不要每天去想这个目标，而是从一些关键的小事开始做起，会有更好的效果。想到许岑老师倡导的“做了再说”，结合 count 的学习，可以造一个句子：

Starting doing it  counts more than planing to do it. 

此外 count 还有很多有用的词组搭配用法，比如count in = to plan to include (someone) in an activity.还有count on (someone) = to trust (someone)/ to expect (someone) to do something/count on (something) = to expect (something) to happen 。如果有兴趣，大家也可以自己去查一下字典，挺有趣的。