Putting them in your own words, with an example, rather than learning by rote is important.

重要的是结合实例用自己的语言描述这些思想，千万不要死记硬背。

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The study of English, I would rather call it a process of daily learning and using rather than learning itself.

掌握英语，与其说是一个学习的过程，倒不如说是一个日常生活中积累和应用的过程。

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It is skiing rather than learning the physics of turns or the chemistry of snow which makes one a skier.

一个人通过练习滑雪运动从而成为滑雪者，而不是去学旋转的物理性质或雪花的化学性质。

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He claims to be studying and learning rather than producing right now; and there's a problem with just studying and learning, and it's a problem that Milton can't avoid.

他坚持学习而不是创作;,但这种单纯地学习存在一个问题，这是个弥尔顿无法回避的问题。

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and learning real-life situations rather than just from a book,

学习真实生活中的场景而不是书本中的场景，

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Anyone teaching a class would reasonably worry that students using Facebook were gossiping rather than learning useful information from their network of friends.

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Rather than just learning a particular set of rules or a formula in a lecture, simulations let managers try things out.

ECONOMIST: Serious games

The IBM Executive School became an unlearning rather than a learning experience.

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