“不知道”英语“停电了”怎么说，但是，我们有英文Yahoo搜索，也“懂”一点点英语，比如no electricity，我们怎样用我们“知道”的英语在Yahoo上搜索，把英语“停电了”给找出来。

的确，既然仅我们已经“知道”英语no electricity了，为什么不把它用起来到英文Yahoo搜索中“探索发现求证”我们想要的英语“停电了”怎么说呢？，我们能不能自己解决“停电了”用英语怎么说的问题。

这就是在“互联网+”时代，我们利用“已知”英语到Yahoo“探索、发现、求证”寻求“答案”(停电了)的重要“学习力”也就是我们缺的不是“不会说”，缺的是怎么利用工具解决“不会说”能力。同时，它也是我们努力到“语言环境”中学习语言的重要表现。

一、拓展一下no electricity，“说”英语we have no electricity tonight

二、Yahoo we have no electricity tonight

三、我们找到了大量的有关英语“停电了”的“英语语言环境”。

从下面搜索到的“英语语言环境”里，你学会英语“停电了”的各种表达法了没有？

1. Whenever electricity goes out I feel like the universe is giving me permission to do nothing. No electricity? We’re basically in the stone ages. Let’s just sleep and eat and tell stories around a campfire.

2. We lived for over a week without electricity. We have a propane cook stove, so we could cook. We also have a battery converter, so the fridge would still run.

3. What is the correct way to say that the electricity has come back after a power outage?

3a. The power is out.

3b. The electricity went out.

3c. We just experienced a power outage.

4. In Britain we could say The power/electricity is back on.

5. I have quite often heard the following:

5a.Power is back

5b.Power is back on/up.

5c. Power has returned

5d. Power is up.

More formally, in the news or so; Power has been restored (to the affected areas)

6. Power is down.

7. The electricity supply is interrupted

所有上面的英语不仅基本解决了英语“停电了”的表达(当然还有其它一些说法，此处不赘述)，还同时解决了英语“开电了”的说法。

现在，我们可以“把学过的英语用起来”，用英语学英语了(千万千万不要“英译汉”式学习)。

四、用英语学英语，练习英语口语

1. Okay.I got you.I know what to say about it.We have many many ways to say it.

2. We can say The electricity goes out/went out.

3. We can also say The power is down/out.

4. We can also say No electricity!

5. We can also say The electricity supply is interrupted

至于“开电了”，“恢复供电了”，大家自己可以参照上面的多种表达自己训练，但必须是做英译英式英语训练，不可“英译汉”。

这样的“英语学习”让你学到和获得的不仅仅只是一句英语“怎么说”，而是还同时让你掌握了如何解决“怎么说”的方法，我称之为“学习力”。

学英语，本质上就是所谓的“直接跟人买鱼，不如自己学会钓鱼”。虽然这样一开始会辛苦一点，麻烦一点，熟练之后就再也不会受制于市场：有鱼买就有吃，不卖给你就饿肚皮了。

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