Yeah, we needn’t to care the past and the furture, just grasp now and focus on what we’re doing.
李晨随后指出 — Kat 这句话中的 need 之后不能跟 to。
Kat 十分不解，且查了字典，找到如下例句：
关于need，我查了词典，找到了一些例句need后跟to：
You didn’t need to tell him the news; it just made him sad.
你无需告诉他这一消息, 那只会使他悲哀。We need to work harder.
我们必须更加努力工作。也找了不跟to的：
You needn’t talk so loud.
你不必这么大声讲话。
李晨觉得很有必要澄清 Kat 对 need 这一单词用法的理解，请看下面的分析 (摘自 Collins CoBuild Dictionary 3rd Edition)：
上图中划红线的部分将Kat的疑问解释得很清楚了。由此例也可看出使用英英字典的好处，关于字典的使用问题，推荐大家参考 指点迷津谈字典 — 陈国华教授公益讲座 一文 
July 10th, 2007 at 10:39 am
Dear lihuichun,
Thank you for visiting my website
I must tell you that learning at BeiwaiOnline means you have began a long journey towards a “qualified” Beiwai graduate. The whole process is very demanding, mentally and physically.
I had exactly the same feeling when I was a freshman. However, back in 2004, BeiwaiOnline organized quite a few lectures given by those towering figures in English teaching realm in China. I have uploaded some of them already. Please download them and study them carefully via http://cn.stevenlichen.com/archives/category/guru/lecture
Learning English, like all learning all subject matters, requires input (learn from book or your teachers), and output (practise what you have learnt, see how the theories would play out in the real world).
Hence, you need to ensure that you try to use whatever you have listened to or read in speaking or writing practices.
If you can make sure “High-Quality Input = High-Quality Output”, so much the better!
I encourage you, first of all, not to be disheartened by your present situation, it is only natural for you to feel the hardship of mastering a foreign language. Then, try to use English as often as possible, speak English with your friends, write it on the forums, even talk with yourself when nobody is around.
As well, I must emphasize the importance of our textbooks. They might seem “shallow”, but ask yourself “if I were given the same amount of vocabulary, could I write a textbook like that”?
Therefore, please calm down and immerse yourself in the English language for the whole summer. Notable progress might come late, but you will see yourself improving over hard learning for as short as a month.
Keep going, don’t settle!
July 9th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
lichen,
I am a student (专升本）in beiwai on line 。I finished the exam of the first term yesterday.It is just so so.I am ashamed with my poor English.I found that I learn so less from Beiwai on line.Maybe I am short of learing independently.I am busy for my work on day,so I study English at night from 8:oo to 10:00.I found that it is a little difficult for me to understand the textbook especially the long sentence.I heard that the content next term will be more difficult,could you give some advise to improve my English skill?I am not only like English but also have a headache with it!
thank you very much!!
July 9th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Good to know that, Kat
May you come out of your exams with flying colours
July 9th, 2007 at 9:20 am
Hi, Steven. I fixed it with your instruction. VCM files have their advantages, they display videos and help us understand the lectures better. Besides I am preparing for my exams recently, I have to spend all of my time on them and have no time to learn English…