It seems a gargantuan task to teach a pupil to memorize every word he needs to know, much as if the child were being asked to shovel a huge pile of sand, with the shovel shut away.

• 教一个小学生去死背他们需要掌握的每一个单词，看来真是一项浩繁的任务，可更像要一个孩子铲掉一大堆沙子，却不给他铲子。