用英语学英语口语：homebody 宅男/女
想从homebody一词上获得英语能力的提高，或者想学习homebody这个词，不是这么学的：先用中文知道homebody的中文意思是“宅男/宅女”，然后举一两个还是带有中文翻译的例句说说怎么把homebody用在句子当中。然后就让你“产生一种感觉”：我“学到”homebody这个英语词了，也“会用”homebody这个词了。
其实，这只是“用中文学英语”的一个过程，跟真正的提高自己英语使用能力还是有一定差距，有一定差别，我们意识不到而已。
我们不仅要有“用中文学”的过程，我们更要有“用英语用”的环节，是“用英语用”最终决定我们的某个学习给我们的学习英语的使用能力带来提高。
学习homebody(其实学习任何其它一个英语词句亦然)，必须是一个“用英语”形成一个英语表达“微话题”的局面：你以后是要直接用英语跟人交谈homebody这个“话题”的，而不是用中文“使用这个单词”，更不是用中文“把这个单词用在句子当中”。
记住：能围绕某个单词展开学习，现在就能直接用英语形成、积累和沉淀一个将来能直接用得上的“微话题”，才是你学习英语能力的体现，是用英语学习英语的终极目标。
一个人英语学习漫长的过程中，给人感觉似乎要学的东西很多，眼前能“提高”自己英语的方方法法让人眼花缭乱，两只手抓都抓不过来，根本不够用，今天抓这个明天抓那个，还傻傻分不清。
其实，你只需要坚持“我只取一瓢”：强迫自己用英语学英语，其它所有的，皆尽可以“放弃”。
1) URead 体验英语：
下面的英语不是用来给你做英语翻译成中文然后理解了英文什么意思用的，是用来给你做“用英语说英语”用的。
Are you a homebody?
If you answer Yes to the following questions, yes, you are：
1. Do you enjoy the warmth and simple pleasures of being at home, and don't want to go out?
2. Do you order delivery WAY too many times at home?
3. Do you look forward to rainy weekends because you can watch a NCIS marathon?
4. Do you really rather just drink wine in your bed.
5. Have you watched an entire season of a TV show on Netflix?
6. Are socializing and clubbing the least desirable activities you can think of?
7. Are you always home in time to watch SNL on Saturday nights?
8. Do you go home and browse the internet for hours on your laptop?
2) UTalk 自己跟自己说英语，使用英语：
使用英语说英语一遍，我们就可以积累和沉淀以后跟人交谈homebody的“微话题”了。
1. 读到Do you enjoy the warmth and simple pleasures of being at home, and don't want to go out时，自己跟自己说英语：
Well you know if you are a homebody, you will enjoy the warmth and the simple pleasures of being at home.You don't like going out.
2. 读到Do you order delivery WAY too many times at home时，自己跟自己说英语：
Do you know what a homebody is?
Well you know a homebody always(=way too many) picks up the phone and orders delivery from their home.
3. 读到Do you look forward to rainy weekends because you can watch a NCIS marathon时，自己跟自己说英语：
Well a homebody likes rainy weekends because he or she has a very good excuse to stay at home.
4. 读到Do you really rather just drink wine in your bed时，
Well an American homebody(Not a Chinese homebody,of course) will drink wine in their bed.Haha, a funny way of being a homebody in the USA.
5. 读到Have you watched an entire season of a TV show on Netflix时，自己跟自己说英语：
OK, you will be a homebody if you watch an entire/a complete session of a TV show at home.
6. 读到Are socializing and clubbing the least desirable activities you can think of时，使用英语：
Well homebodies don't like socializing and clubbing.
我想，这就是homebody最关键的关键词了，能不死记?
7. 读到Are you always home in time to watch SNL on Saturday nights时，使用英语：
Well a homebody is always home in time, for what?
For watching their favorite TV show啊！
8. 读到Do you go home and browse the internet for hours on your laptop时，使用英语：
Well a good homebody will browse the Internet(surf the Internet) as soon as they get home.
你过后再看到homebody，你闭上眼睛，你还能想起、张口就来这些英语“微话题”吗？
1) URead 体验英语：
What is homebody?
1. stay-at-home
2. hermit
3. loner
4. recluse
5. shut-in
2) UTalk 自己跟自己说英语：
Well you may call a homebody a homebody, you may also call a homebody a shut-in, you may call a homebody a stay-at-home, you may call a homebody a hermit, or a loner, or a recluse.
你过后再看到homebody，你闭上眼睛，你还能想起、张口就来这些英语“同义词”吗？
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