1. Experience is knowledge or skill in a particular job or activity that you have gained because you have done that job or activity for a long time.( 经验)
例：He has also had managerial experience on every level.
他还具备各层次的管理经验。
2. Experience is used to refer to the past events, knowledge, and feelings that make up someone's life or character. (阅历)
例：I should not be in any danger here, but experience has taught me caution.
我在这里应该没有任何危险，但阅历已教会我谨慎。
3. An experience is something that you do or that happens to you, especially something important that affects you. (经历)
例：His only experience of gardening so far proved immensely satisfying.
他仅有的园艺经历到目前为止非常令人满意。
作动词使用时，意为经历，体验 动词变形：vt. experienced . experiencing
1. If you experience a particular situation, you are in that situation or it happens to you.( 经历)
例句：We had never experienced this kind of holiday before and had no idea what to expect.
我们以前从未经历过这种假期，不知道有什么可期待的。
2. If you experience a feeling, you feel it or are affected by it. (感受)
例：Widows seem to experience more distress than widowers.
寡妇似乎比鳏夫感受更多痛苦。
实用短语：
1.chalk it up to experience (作为付一笔学费)从失败中吸取教训，不后悔
2.Experience does it. [谚语]经验使人聪明。
3.Experience is good,if not bought too dear. [谚语]经验好，只要代价不太高。
4.Experience is sometimes dangerous. [谚语]经验有时是危险的。
5.Experience is the best teacher. [谚语] 经验是最好的教师。
6.Experience is the mistress of fools. [谚语]经验是蠢人的主妇。
7.Experience is the mother of wisdom (或knowledge,science). [谚语]经验乃智慧(或学问)之母。
8.Experience keeps a dear school. [谚语]经验学校学费高。 (或：苦头吃得多，学问就增多。)
9.Experience keeps a dear school,but fools learn in no other. [谚语]吃亏学乖代价高，笨汉非此学不好。
10.Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly. [谚语]只有亲身经历的经验才是经验。(或：经验并非来自课堂，而是来自亲身实践)。
11.Experience teaches. = Experience does it.
12.Experience without learning is better than learning without experience. [谚语] 没有学问的经验比没有经验的学问好。
