lesson: [13] Etymologically, a lesson is ‘something read’ – as indeed the lesson read in church still is. The word comes via Old French lecon from Latin lectiō ‘reading’, a derivative of the verb legere ‘read’ (from which English gets lectern, lecture, etc). The word’s educational sense arose from the notion of a passage of text that a child had to read and learn. => lectern, lecture, legible
lesson (n.)
early 13c., "a reading aloud from the Bible," also "something to be learned by a student," from Old French leçon, from Latin lectionem (nominative lectio) "a reading," noun of action from past participle stem of legere "to read" (see lecture (n.)). Transferred sense of "an occurrence from which something can be learned" is from 1580s.
双语例句
1. He learned this lesson the hard way from his own personal experience.
吃一堑长一智，他这个教训来之不易——是从他自己的亲身经历中得来的。
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2. The lesson from all of this is perhaps a broader one.
从所有这一切中得出的教训可能具有更广泛的意义。
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3. It was the quickest swimming lesson I'd ever witnessed.
这是我所见过的最速成的游泳课。
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4. His sailing instructor fell overboard and drowned during a lesson.
