Are you familiar with the concept of intensive and extensive reading?

你对精读和泛读概念熟悉吗？

There are two ways to read in a foreign language, to read intensively or to read extensively.

外语阅读有两种方式，精读和泛读。

I've bought a book for listening practice, but the textbooks for intensive reading and literature were sold out.

我买了一本听力练习用书，但是精读课本和文学作品卖完了。

And then you slow down and you read intensively, thoughtfully to understand and find your answer.

然速度，精读，认真思考，去理解文意并找到你答案。

However, being book-smart is not everything.

然而，精读书籍并不是一切。

However, the four skills are often subsumed into one—intensive reading.

然而，这四项技能往往包含在一个精读。

The minister perused the petition and made a speech.

部重精读了请愿书然发表演说。

But by paying carefully attention and gauging each one, you'll be able to make smart decisions about what to read, skim, or skip.

但是，通过仔细地关注和衡量每一种阅读任务，你将能够做出明智决定，决定去精读、略读什么或跳过哪些内容。

Dinner passed as breakfast had done, and Mr. Fogg re–appeared in the reading–room and sat down to the Pall Mall at twenty minutes before six.

五点四十分，他又回到大厅，专心精读《每日晨报》。

When you learn English at school, typically you're taught to read intensively, it means you read slowly and carefully trying to understand everything.

当你在学校学习英语时，通常你被教导要进行精读，这表示你要仔细地阅，尽量理解所有内容。

Don't take me wrong, hearing words is handy for intensive reading sometimes I will move my lips to really get to the meaning of a certain phrase.

不要误会我意思，听单词对于精读来说很有益，有时我还会动动我嘴唇来真正理解某个短语意思。

And when we learned English, we're typically taught to read slowly, to try to understand everything you read, to write down the words you don't know and translate them in the dictionary, that's intensive reading and it's very slow.

当我们学习英语时，我们通常被教导要地阅读，试着理解你读到所有内容，写下你不认识单词并在字典中找到翻译，这就是精读，速度非常缓。

Many people agree: Yes, this old-fashioned I.R. (OFIR) is certainly intensive; it calls for most intensive work by the students. But it doesn't teach them how to read. The more intensively the students study, the fewer books they read.

许多人都赞同这种旧式精读（OFIR）确是高负荷；它要求学生承担最重任务，但它并不会教他们如何去阅读。学生所承担任务越重，它们阅读书数量就越少。