learn: [OE] Learn comes from a prehistoric West Germanic *liznōjan, which also produced German lernen. This goes back ultimately to an Indo-European *leis- ‘track’, and so seems to carry the underlying notion of ‘gaining experience by following a track’. Very closely related are terms in various Germanic languages for ‘teach’ (German lehren, for instance, and Dutch leeren, Swedish l?ra, and Danish l?re – the last three also mean ‘learn’). English used to have such a verb for ‘teach’ too: lere. It had largely died out by the 19th century, but the related lore ‘knowledge’ [OE] survives. => last, lore
learn (v.)
Old English leornian "to get knowledge, be cultivated, study, read, think about," from Proto-Germanic *liznojan (cognates: Old Frisian lernia, Middle Dutch leeren, Dutch leren, Old High German lernen, German lernen "to learn," Gothic lais "I know"), with a base sense of "to follow or find the track," from PIE *leis- (1) "track, furrow." Related to German Gleis "track," and to Old English l?st "sole of the foot" (see last (n.)).
The transitive sense (He learned me how to read), now vulgar, was acceptable from c. 1200 until early 19c., from Old English l?ran "to teach" (cognates: Dutch leren, German lehren "to teach," literally "to make known;" see lore), and is preserved in past participle adjective learned "having knowledge gained by study." Related: Learning.
雙語例句
1. No matter where you go in life or how old you get, there's always something new to learn about. After all, life is full of surprises.
不管你生活在哪里，你有多少歲，總有新東西要學習，畢竟，生活總是充滿驚喜。
來自金山詞霸 每日一句
2. Eventually, you'll learn to cry that on the inside.
終有一天，你會學會讓淚往心里流。
來自美劇《破產姐妹》
3. Did you learn anything in your day, as a student?
你在學生時代學到什么東西了嗎？
來自柯林斯例句
4. The psychiatrist must learn to maintain an unusual degree of objectivity.
精神科醫生務必要學會保持超乎尋常的客觀態度。
來自柯林斯例句
5. I would have to learn, little by little, to exist alone.