
| Lĩnh vực: toán & tin |
Xem thêm: example, deterrent example, object lesson, moral
lesson noun
1 period of teaching or learning
ADJ. good, interesting | boring | individual | private | driving, English, geography, maths, piano, swimming, etc.
VERB + LESSON attend, go to, have, take I go to Italian lessons at the local college. We had a history lesson followed by a double maths lesson. I'm taking driving lessons at the moment. | give (sb), offer (sb), provide, take, teach She gives singing lessons. They're offering free lessons in computing. I had to take a biology lesson this afternoon because the biology teacher was away. He doesn't teach very many lessons these days. | get Pupils get lessons on how to organize their study time. | prepare The trouble is that teachers don't prepare their lessons carefully enough. | skip He got into trouble for skipping lessons.
PREP. during a/the ~ No talking was allowed during the lesson. | in a/the ~ You can't expect to learn all there is to know about the subject in a 45-minute lesson. | ~ about a lesson about the Civil War | ~ in He took lessons in Thai cookery. | ~ on a lesson on the Roman Empire | ~ with They've got a lesson with Mrs Evans at two o'clock.
2 sth learnt through experience
ADJ. important, salutary, useful, valuable | bitter, hard, painful It's a hard lesson to learn. | clear
VERB + LESSON draw, learn What lessons can we draw from this unfortunate experience? | teach sb It taught me some valuable lessons about working with other people.
PREP. ~ from There are important lessons to be learnt from this mistake. | ~ in I learned a lesson in harsh economics when I was made redundant.
n.
he took driving lessons
they decided to make an example of him
the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor
he did the lesson for today