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Dr. Johnson O'Connor of the Human Engineering Laboratory of Boston and of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, gave a vocabulary test to 100 young men who werestudying to be industrial executives.
波士顿人类工程学实验室和新泽西州霍博肯市史蒂文斯理工学院的约翰逊·奥康纳博士曾对100名要做工业行政主管的年轻学生进行了一次词汇测试。
Five years later those who had passed in the upper ten per cent all, without exception,had executive positions,while not a single young man of the lower twenty-five per cent had become an executive.
五年之后，那些名列前10%内的人无一例外全都有了行政主管职位，而名列最后25%内的没有一个人成为行政主管。
You see, there are certain factors in success that can be measured as scientifically as thecontents of a test-tube,and it has been discovered that the most common characteristic of outstanding success is “ an extensive knowledge of the exact meaning of English words.”
要知道，有某些成功的因素可以像试管里的东西一样科学地加以测定，而据发现,显著的成功最普遍的特点就是“对英语词汇的确切意义具有广泛的知识”。
The extent of your vocabulary indicates the degree of your intelligence. Your brain power will increase as you learn to know more words. Here's the proof.
你的词汇量的大小表明了你的智力程度。当你学会更多的词汇时，你的智力就会增强。下面就是证据。
Two classes in a high school were selected for an experiment. Their ages and their environment were the same. Each class represented an identical cross-section of the community. One, the control class, took the normal courses. The other class was given special vocabulary training. At the end of the period the marks of the latter class surpassed those of the control group, not only in English, but in every subject, including mathematics and the sciences.
有人选了某中学的两个班进行试验。他们的年龄和环境都是相同的。每个班代表了同等的典型群体。一个班是对照班，学习正常的课程。另一个班则给予特殊的词汇训练。试验结束时，不仅在英语而且在包括数学和自然科学的各门科目上，后一个班的分数都超过了对照组的分数。
Similarly it has been found by Professor Lewis M. Terman, of Stanford University, that a vocabulary test is as accurate a measure of intelligence as any three units of the standard and accepted Stanford-Binet I. Q. tests.
同样，斯坦福大学的刘易斯·M·特曼教授发现，用词汇测试来衡量智力与用标准的、公认的斯坦福·比奈智商测试的任何三种计量单位来衡量同样准确。
