【英语时差8,16】语言结构

 Going through the alphabet one letter at a time might help you remember it. When you come to the initial¹ letter of the word, your memory might be jogged enough to help you complete the two-step process and remember the sound of the word you’re looking for. When you use an incorrect word that sounds similar to the word you mean to say, your brain has erred² in the second step, when you were looking for the actual sound of the word. So, for instance³, if you said “Moment of Silence” instead of “Moment of Science” when you were talking about this show, your brain would have successfully completed the conceptual stage of the word-retrieval process but then would have made a slip during the second stage by choosing another similar sounding word that was more familiar than the word you needed.

1 initial   

adj.最初的，开始的，词首的；n.首字母，姓名的开头字母；vt.标注姓名的首字母于

参考例句：

• After she'd overcome her initial shyness,she became very friendly.她克服了起初的羞怯之后，变得十分友善。
• The experiments have given initial results eventually.那些试验总算初见成效了。

2 erred   

犯错误，做错事( err的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He erred in his judgement. 他判断错了。
• We will work on those who have erred and help them do right. 我们将对犯了错误的人做工作，并帮助他们改正。

3 instance   

n.例，例证，实例

参考例句：

• Can you quote me a recent instance?你能给我举一个最近的例子吗？
• He's a greedy boy,yesterday,for instance,he ate all our biscuits!他是个贪吃的孩子――比如，他昨天把我们的饼干都吃了！