Do more reading, try to guess the meanings of the new words, and get the main idea of the article.

康康： 多阅读，设法猜出新单词的意思，理解文章的大意。

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Then you pay attention to the first and last sentence of very paragraph of the passage. You can get the main idea of the paragraph.

然后，注意文章每一段的第一句和最后一句话，这样就可以知道每一段的主要意思。

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Normally, if English speakers can get the main idea of one's speaking and keep the conversation going, they wouldn't want to discourage an English learner by correcting them too much.

正常情况下，如果一个英语为母语者能明白你要表达的要点并且对话可以继续，他们就不会用挑错的方式来让英语学习者沮丧。

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The activists' main idea for Carrefour was to get the company to spin off part of its enormous property portfolio into a separate entity.

ECONOMIST: Business in France

But what diplomats are saying on the sidelines is that the main idea of the draft document that the host nation China put forward is to get North Korea to shut down its main reactor at Yongbyon and to reintroduce the international inspectors that they kicked out in 2002.

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To get an idea of the gulf between the ivory tower and Main Street, take a look at the essay by Yale professor Robert Shiller.

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