从 … 中 (from within)
Draw a lesson from an abstract source
- A team identifies lessons from a failed attempt.
- 我们从失败中学习。 — The failed experience is the source of learning.
Draw a lesson from an abstract source
- A team identifies lessons from a failed attempt.
- we / us我们from从to be defeated失败to hit (the mark)中to learn学习。 — The failed experience is the source of learning.
A team identifies lessons from a failed attempt. What does 我们从失败中学习。 communicate?
The failed experience is the source of learning. 中 can refer to an abstract experience as well as a physical set or container. The sentence does not claim that learning automatically occurs without reflection.
Build the form
- The pattern in this lesson is 从 … 中 (from within). Locate it in the original interlinear examples below.
- Keep the words in their demonstrated positions; the pattern must fit the intended situation as well as the sentence form.
we我们from从failure失败within中learn学习。
Build the form
- The pattern in this lesson is from从 … to hit (the mark)中 (from within). Locate it in the original interlinear examples below.
- Keep the words in their demonstrated positions; the pattern must fit the intended situation as well as the sentence form.
we我们from从failure失败within中learn学习。
Using the lesson pattern in this demonstrated example: We learn from failure: 我们从失败 ____ 学习。
从 + Noun + 中 = from within: 从失败中学习.
Read examples in context
- In the opening example, 我们从失败中学习。: The failed experience is the source of learning.
- Explain who acts, what is described and which time or group is relevant before choosing an English paraphrase.
Read examples in context
- In the opening example, we / us我们from从to be defeated失败to hit (the mark)中to learn学习。: The failed experience is the source of learning.
- Explain who acts, what is described and which time or group is relevant before choosing an English paraphrase.
从中得到经验 means…
从中 = “from it” (a fixed shorthand).
Know the boundary
- 中 can refer to an abstract experience as well as a physical set or container.
- The sentence does not claim that learning automatically occurs without reflection.
Know the boundary
- to hit (the mark)中 can refer to an abstract experience as well as a physical set or container.
- The sentence does not claim that learning automatically occurs without reflection.
中 here marks the source you draw something out of.
Yes — 从失败中(学习), 从经验中(总结).
从失败中学习 necessarily refers to a physical container.
中 can refer to an abstract experience as well as a physical set or container. The sentence does not claim that learning automatically occurs without reflection. The failed experience is the source of learning.
Use the distinction
- The failed experience is the source of learning.
- 中 can refer to an abstract experience as well as a physical set or container. The sentence does not claim that learning automatically occurs without reflection.
Read the full reference: HSK 5 grammar — Sentence patterns.
Use the distinction
- The failed experience is the source of learning.
- to hit (the mark)中 can refer to an abstract experience as well as a physical set or container. The sentence does not claim that learning automatically occurs without reflection.
Read the full reference: HSK 5 grammar — Sentence patterns.