learn 和 learn about的区别

这周做的翻译里的一句话： Note that the title above isn’t “how to learn everything”, but “how to learn about everything”. The distinction I have in mind is between knowing the inside of a topic in deep detail — many facts and problem-solving skills — and knowing the structure and context of a topic: essential facts, what problems can be solved by the skilled, and how the topic fits with others.

这里涉及到两个词的区别learn和learn from。

google了一下发现，区别还是很大的。

有人给出的解释是这样的：

I am learning Japanese. = I am studying the language. I want to speak, read, and write the language. I am learning about Japanese. = I am becoming informed about the features of the language. For example, that it has more than one alphabet and that it uses Chinese characters, too.

也就是说，learn的意思就是它的本意，即学某一件事，比如，学日语。而learn about的意思，去了解跟某一概念相关的相关的信息，比如，了解日语的字母是由一些中文字符组成。

另一个解释是:

To learn about something is to become aware that it exists and to know something of its history and/or its uses or other characteristics; to learn something is to actually acquire the ability to something.

同样地，learn about是了解某件事情的历史或者它的用处以及其他一些属性。而learn就是真的掌握一件事。

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