用英语学英语口语：traffic jam 交通拥堵

如果你真的是想把你连标带本的彻底“治好”(学好)，那么，你见到traffic jam这个英语词汇，最好不要不假思索脱口而出中文：交通堵塞！

你这是在“使用中文”，而不是在“使用英语”，也无助于你英语“学以致用”，学用同步，提高英语口语。

你也最好不要用中文记住traffic jam的中文意思后，又用中文记住它使用在句子里的那几个英文例句。你不要以为这样“带着中文翻译”学那几个英语例句，就是学英语口语了。离开了中文依托，你会发觉你的英语原来什么也不是。

你不需要用中文去记traffic jam的对等中文意思“交通堵塞”的，你也不需要把它放到带有中文翻译的例句里去学习记忆它的意思和“用法”的。

你只需要用英语练就见到traffic jam就能用英语“侃侃而谈”traffic jam是什么就好。这才是把英语真正学到家、练到家了。而你学英语以来(五年也罢，十年也罢，十五年也罢，再往下我都不好意思说了)，最缺乏的不是别的我们大家都能说出来的学过的英语，正是这个英语语言能力。

1. URead 体验英语：

如果你实在想不起来用英语表达traffic jam该用到哪些英语词句，我们在这里先给你罗列一些作为提示，给你“欧耶，想起来了”的惊喜，然后强迫自己跟自己“说英语”。

What is traffic jam?

Traffic jam is bumper-to-bumper traffic. Bumper to bumper is cars are very close together with their bumpers almost touching one another and they are moving very slowly or not at all.

Traffic jam is a long line of vehicles on a road have stopped moving or are moving very slowly,with many stops and starts, one behind the other.

有了这么“漂亮”的描述traffic jam的英语词句和提示，你再不能“使用英语”就怎么都说不过去了。

2) UTalk 自己跟自己说英语，使用英语：

1. 读到Traffic jam is bumper-to-bumper traffic.时，用英语说英语：

Well when we say traffic jam, we can also say bumper-to-bumper(汽车前后杠) traffic.

2. 读到Bumper to bumper is cars are very close together with their bumpers almost touching one another and they are moving very slowly or not at all时，说英语：

OK, when we say bumper-to-bumper, we mean a traffic jam and the cars on the road have their bumpers so close to one another that they almost touch each other.

When we have a traffic jam or a bumper-to-bumper traffic, the cars are forming a long line and are moving very slowly(见下句),with many stops and starts(多棒的英语？)

Traffic jam is a long line of vehicles on a road have stopped moving or are moving very slowly,with many stops and starts, one behind the other.

直接用这些漂亮的英语记忆积累traffic jam不比你只会使用中文“交通堵塞”理解记忆traffic jam更让你的英语“受益”吗？