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Your boss has a bigger vocabulary than you have.
That"s one good reason why he"s your boss.
This discovery has been made in the word laboratories of the world. Not by theoretical English professors, but by practical, hard headed scholars who have been searching for the secrets of success.
After a host of experiments and years of testing they have found out:
That if your vocabulary is limited your chances of success are limited.
That one of the easiest and quickest ways to get ahead is by consciously building up your knowledge of words.
That the vocabulary of the average person almost stops growing by the middle twenties.
And that from then on it is necessary to have an intelligent plan if progress is to be made. No haphazard hitormiss methods will do.
It has long since been satisfactorily established that a high executive does not have a large vocabulary merely because of the opportunities of his position. That would be putting the cart before the horse. Quite the reverse is true. His skill in words was a tremendous help in getting him his job.
Dr.Johnson O’;Connor of thee Human Engineering Laboratory of Boston and of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, gave a vocabulary test to 100 young men who were studying to be industrial executives.
Five years later those who had passed in the upper ten percent all, without exception, had executive positions, while not a single young man of the lower twentyfive per cent had become an executive.
You see, there are certain factors in success that can be measured as scientifically as the contents of a testtube, and it has been discovered that the most common characteristic of outstanding success is “an extensive knowledge of the exact meaning of English words”.
The extent of your vocabulary indicates the degree of your intelligence. Your brain power will increase as you learn to know more words. Here"s the proof.
Two classes in a high school were selected for an experiment. Their ages and their environment were the same. Each class represented an identical crosssection of the community. One, the control class, took the normal courses. The other class was given special vocabulary training. At the end of the period the marks of the latter class surpassed those of the control group, not only in English, but in every subject, including mathematics and the sciences.
Similarly it has been found by Professor Lewis M.Terman, of Stanford University, that a vocabulary test is as accurate a measure of intelligence as any three units of the standard and accepted StanfordBinet I.Q.tests.
The study of words is not merely something that has to do with literature. Words are your tools of thought. You can"t even think at all without them. Try it. If you are planning to go down town this afternoon you will find that you are saying to yourself:“I think I will go down town this afternoon.” You can"t make such a simple decision as this without using words.
Without words you could make no decisions and from no judgments whatsoever. A pianist may have the most beautiful tunes in his head, but if he had only five keys on his piano he would never get more than a fraction of these tunes out.
Your words are your keys for your thoughts. And the more words you have at your command the deeper, clearer and more accurate will be your thinking.
A command of English will not only improve the processes of your mind. It will give you assurance; build your selfconfidence; lend color to your personality; increase your popularity. Your words are your personality. Your vocabulary is you.
Your words are all that we, your friends, have to know and judge you by. You have no other medium for telling us your thoughts-for convincing us, persuading us, giving us orders.
Words are explosive. Phrases are packed with TNT.A simple word can destroy a friendship, land a large order. The proper phrases in the mouths of clerks have quadrupled the proper phrases in the mouths of clerks have quadrupled the sales of a department store. The wrong words used by a campaign orator have lost an election. For instance, on one occasion the four unfortunate words, “Rum, Romanism and a Rebellion” used in a Republican campaign speech threw the Catholic vote and the presidential victory to Grover Cleveland. Ears are won by words. Soldiers fight for a phrase.“Make the world safe for Democracy.” “All out for England.” “V for Victory.” The “Remember the Maine” of Spanish war days has now been changed to “Remember Pearl Harbor.”
Words have changed the direction of history. Words van also change the direction of your life. They have often raised a man from mediocrity to success.
If you consciously increase your vocabulary you will unconsciously raise yourself to a more important station in life, and the new and higher position you have won will, in turn, give you a better opportunity for further enriching your vocabulary. It is a beautiful and successful cycle.
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你老板的词汇量比你的词汇量大。
这是他为什么会成为你老板的一个重要原因。
这一发现是在世界各地的语言实验室里得来的。它不是那些空有理论的英语教授信口胡诌的，而是那些一直以来就在探讨着成功秘诀、精明而又讲求 实际的学者们发现的。
在经历了大量的试验和多年的验证之后，他们发现：
如果你的词汇量不大，你成功的机会也就不多。
最简洁而又最迅速的改进方法之一就是有意识地扩大你的词汇知识。
普通人的词汇量到了二十五六岁左右就几乎停止增长了。
从那以后要想继续提高词汇量就必须有一个精心设计的计划。随意安排的、漫无目的的计划是不起作用的。
长期以来人们就有个想当然的看法：高级行政管理人员不会有很大的词汇量，因为处在那个位置上，他有的是机会。这未免有点本末倒置了。实际情 况恰恰相反。他的言语技巧对他获得那个职位有着巨大的帮助。
约翰逊·欧·康纳博士为波士顿的人才管理实验室和新泽西州霍博肯市的史蒂文斯理工学院工作，他曾对100名学工业行政管理的年轻人做过一次词 汇测试。
五年以后那些在考试中名列前十位的人全部地、无一例外地跨上了管理岗位，而考试中位列后二十五名的人中没有一个能当上管理人员。
你瞧，有一些成功的因素是要以像试管里的物质那样被精确测量的，而人们发现，获得杰出成绩的一个最普遍的要素就是“大量而准确地掌握英语词 汇”。
你对词汇的把握程度反映了你的智力水平，当你通过学习掌握了更多的词汇的时候，你大脑的思维能力也会提高。以下事例就可以证明这一点。
一所高中的两个班被挑选出来做了一个试验。年龄相仿，所处的环境相同。每个班都代表着整个社会的一个完全相当的横截面。其中一个班被作为参 照班，只上普通班应上的课程。另一个班则附加特别的词汇训练。到试验期结束的时候，后一个班的成绩，不只是英语成绩，而是每一科的成绩，包括数 学和自然学科成绩全都超过了参照班的成绩。
无独有偶，斯坦福大学的路易斯·M.特曼教授也发现，词汇测试与三套普遍被人接受的斯坦福·宾尼特标准智商测试题中的任何一套一样，可以准确地测 定智力。
词汇学习并非只是某种与文学有关的事情。词汇是思维的工具。没有了词汇你甚至根本无法思维。你可以试一试。如果你打算今天下午进城，你会发 现你在对自己说：“我今天下午我要进趟城。”不借助词的话，你就连这样一个简单的决定也作不了。
没有了词汇你什么决定也作不了，什么判断也作不成。一位钢琴家的脑袋中可能想到了一首美妙的曲子，但是如果他的钢琴上只有五个音键的话，他 永远也只能演奏出这首曲子的一些破碎的片段。