And today we're looking at a word that's quite tricky.

今天我们要学习一个用法有点难以捉摸的单词。

The boy, at a word from his master, stopped dragging the lamb, and the little creature ceased its bleating.

听到制止后，男孩很顺从地放开了手, 小家伙也停止它的叫声。

He knocked and, at a word, entered.

他敲了敲门， 一句话就进去了。

If you just look at a word in English, do you know how to pronounce it?

如果你只看一个英文单词，你知道它怎么发音吗？

When Tana announced dinner the men, at a word from Gloria, remained coatless and went inside.

当塔娜宣布晚餐时，格洛丽亚只说了一句话，男人们就没穿外套走了进去。

Look at a word, try to remember how it's spelt, cover it up, write it down.

看着一个词， 试着记住它的拼写方式， 掩盖它，把它写下来。

I fear no man and nothing; I have seen you tremble and lose countenance at a word.

我不惧怕任何人， 也不惧怕任何事物； 我见过你一句话就发抖， 失色。

Basically, the idea is that because when we look at a word, our peripheral vision can like see the words around the word.

基本上，这个想法是因为当我们看一个单词时，我们的周边视觉可以看到单词周围的单词。

First, try to guess at a word's meaning from its context— that is, the sense of the passage in which it appears.

首先，试着从上下文中猜出一个词的意思——也就是说，它出现的段落的意思。

Almost their last conversation was a senseless quarrel about the proper division of the income—at a word either would have given it all to the other.

他们最后一次谈话几乎是关于收入的适当分配的无意义的争吵——一句话，任何一方都会把所有的钱都给对方。

That night, and the next, and the next again, the spy sat booted and equipped in his carter's dress: ready to turn out at a word from Fagin.

第二天，又是下一天， 间谍穿着靴子， 穿着他的卡特礼服：准备好听到费金的一句话就出来。

The second is by introducing different senses to the way that you're learning so not just looking at a word and seeing it but hearing it, touching something, maybe drawing it.

第二种方法是通过将不同的感官引入你的学习当中来进行学习，所以我们不只是看看一个单词而已，而是要去听，要去触摸，可能也可以画一画。

And I much prefer it when they use that because then I know they are really just looking at a word and not on Facebook or doing something else like you just mentioned, so.

我非常喜欢他们用电子词典，因为这样我就知道他们是在查单词，而不是在上脸谱网或做其他你刚才提到过的无关的事情。

Now, at a word from the Princess, the queer Thing they had called the Gump flopped its palm-leaf wings and rose into the air, carrying the party of adventurers high above the walls.

现在，听到公主的一句话，那个被他们称为阿甘的古怪东西拍打着它的棕榈叶翅膀升到空中， 载着这群冒险者高高地飞出城墙。