上世纪五六十年代是毛泽东学英语兴致最高的时候。毛泽东在国内巡视工作期间,无论是在火车上,还是在轮船上,随时都抓紧时间学英语,哪怕只有个把小时也要加以利用。毛泽东把学习英语的重点放在阅读政论文章和马列主义经典著作上,因为他非常熟悉这些文章和著作的内容,学习时可以把注意力放在句型变化和句子的结构以及英语词类的形式变化上。 Fifties and sixties of last century was Mao Zedong’s highest interest in learning English. During his domestic inspection work, Mao Tse-tung took the time to learn English, whether on a train or on a ship, even if only an hour had to be used. Mao Zedong focused his study of English on the reading of political articles and classic Marxist-Leninist writings because he was very familiar with the contents of these articles and writings, and he could concentrate on the changes of sentence patterns and the structure of sentences as well as the changes in the forms of English parts of speech on.