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 le?on, 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.
雙語例句
1. He learned this lesson the hard way from his own personal experience.
吃一塹長一智，他這個教訓來之不易——是從他自己的親身經歷中得來的。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The lesson from all of this is perhaps a broader one.
從所有這一切中得出的教訓可能具有更廣泛的意義。
來自柯林斯例句
3. It was the quickest swimming lesson I'd ever witnessed.
這是我所見過的最速成的游泳課。
來自柯林斯例句
4. His sailing instructor fell overboard and drowned during a lesson.