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Methods to improve your English communication skills.

提高英语沟通能力的方法。

Give Yourself Time to Think

给你自己一些时间去思考

You may be worried that the people you’re talking to are impatient and would like you to say what you want as quickly as possible.

你可能担心与你交谈的人不耐烦，希望你尽快说出你想要的。

First of all, it may not be true – people often prefer a well-thought-out answer to a rushed one.So just relax.

首先，这可能不是真的——人们往往喜欢深思熟虑的回答。所以放松一下。

Another practical thing you can do is equipping yourself with fixed phrases you can use when remaining silent doesn’t seem to be an option. Here’s an example:

你可以做的另一个实际的事情是给自己配备一些固定短语，当你保持沉默似乎不是一个好的选择时，你可以使用。下面举个例子：

Why is there so much violence on TV? That’s a good question. Let me think for a moment, I haven’t really thought about it before. Well, I suppose…

为什么电视上有这么多暴力镜头？这是个好问题。让我想一想，我以前没有想过这个问题。嗯，我想…

Here the speaker gains considerable amount of time to reflect just by repeating the question and adding a few sentences. If you do the same, you’ll sound more fluent and won’t feel the pressure of having to say something before you’re ready.

在这里，演讲者可以通过重复提问和添加一些句子来获得大量的时间来思考。如果你做同样的事情，你会说得更流利，也不会感到在你准备好之前要说点什么的压力。

Fixed or set phrases are phrases whose words are usually fixed in a certain order. They can be verb patterns, idioms, collocations – basically anything we always say in one particular way. For example,

固定词组或组合词组是通常按一定顺序固定的短语。它们可以是动词模式，习语，搭配——基本上我们总是用一种特定的方式表达。例如：

during the day

白天

in the meantime

同时

It’s been a long time since

这是很久以前的事了

Sorry to bother/trouble you, but…

很抱歉打扰你，但是…

Would you mind if…?

如果……你介意吗？

Oh, come on!

哦，来吧！

I’m just kidding!

我只是开玩笑！

For what it’s worth,…

它的价值是，…

To be right/wrong about

正确的是/错误的是

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