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1 .<-NARRATOR:-> Now listen to part of a lecture in a psychology class.

现在听一个心理学的讲座片段。

1 .<-MALE PROFESSOR:-> I have a three-year-old daughter, and last month I decided to help her learn how to wash her hands by herself.

我有一个三岁的女儿，上个月我决定帮助她学习如何自己洗手。

1 .Now, we usually think of washing our hands as one action,

然而，我们经常把洗手当作一个动作，

2 .but when you think about it, you can break hand washing down into a series of simpler steps:

但是，考虑一下，你能把洗手分解成一系列简单的步骤：

3 .step 1, you turn on the water; step 2, you get your hands wet;

步骤1，打开水龙头；步骤2，把手弄湿；

4 .step 3, you add some soap; step 4, you rinse your hands, and step 5: you turn off the water.

步骤3，放上些肥皂；步骤4，冲洗手部，步骤5，把水龙头关上。

1 .So I broke it down into these steps, and then I helped my daughter learn them, one step at a time;

我把洗手分解成这些步骤，然后帮助女儿学习，每次只一个步骤；

2 .I didn’t present them all at once because that would have been too complicated.

我没有把所有步骤同时呈现，因为那会变得太复杂。

1 .First I showed her step 1, turning on the water.

首先，我教她第一步，打开水龙头。

2 .That’s all we practiced for the next few days.

这是我们在接下来几天练习的所有内容。

1 .Then, when she started turning on the water by herself, I added step 2, getting her hands wet.

然后，当她开始能自己打开水龙头的时候，我增加了第二步，把手弄湿。

2 .And for the next few days she practiced steps 1and 2,

在接下来的几天，她练习步骤1和步骤2，

3 .turning on the water and getting her hands wet, until she could do both steps on her own.

打开水龙头并且把手弄湿，直到她能自己做这两个步骤。

1 .Then we added step 3, putting on the soap, and she practiced steps 1, 2, and 3 for a while.

这时我们增加第三步，放上肥皂，然后她练习步骤1，2 和3一段时间。

2 .Then we added step 4, rinsing her hands, and eventually, step 5, turning off the water.

然后我们增加步骤4，冲洗手部，最终，步骤4，把水关上。

1 .She practiced all five steps in sequence for a few days until she could wash her hands all by herself.

她在几天里按照顺序练习所有5个步骤，直到她能自己独立洗手。