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On Writing Well 10.30

On Writing Well 10.30

作者: 苌楚_ | 来源:发表于2017-10-30 22:21 被阅读0次

    Vocabulary

    1.inkling:I had no inkling of the electronic marvels that would soon revolutionize the act of writing.

    这个词有“暗示”、“蛛丝马迹”和“略知”的意思,在这句话里我觉得应该意为“暗示”。该句句意大概:我从未暗示过电子化可能导致写作的动作有所更改。

    2.impromptu:E-mail is an impromptu medium, not conductive to slowing down or looking back.

    这个词的意思是“即兴的”、“无准备的”,我认为在这一句话中,它意思是不加更改地即兴写作。该句大意:电子邮件是一种即兴写作的媒介,作者从不缓慢写作,也不会再次更改自己所写内容。

    make an inpromptu speech:做即兴演讲

    3.bewildered:As for the students ,anyone might think we left them bewildered.

    这个词意为“疑惑的”,结合上文,该句大意:对这些学生而言,我们把他们弄懵了。bewildered,可拆分为be-wilder-ed,wilder意为“使迷惑,使迷路”

    4.clutter:Clutter is the disease of American writing.

    这个词可做动词和名词,动词意为“使杂乱,使乱七八糟”,名词有“杂乱”和“杂乱物”的意思。此处分析句子结构,做名词用,该句大意:乱七八糟是美式写作的通病。

    5.elusive:Who is the elusive creature, the reader?

    该词意为“巧妙逃避的”、“难以捉摸的”、“难以记起的”。此处应为“难以捉摸的”之意。该句大意:谁才是这难以捉摸的生物,是读者么?

    6.poten:…-as well as a fitness program, a pool, a lawn and that most potent of competitors, sleep.

    该词意为“强有力的”,此句前面言及读者在生活中所面对的种种琐事都使他们无法继续阅读,这里则提到那些对健康有益的项目,以及阅读最强有力的竞争者——睡眠。

    7.pedagogical:But now I also had a pedagogical interest:White was the reigning champ of the arena I was trying to enter.

    该词意为“教育学的”,为pedagogy(教育学)变形而来,pedagogy可拆分为ped(儿童)-agog(引导)-y(名词名缀)。

    8.segment:When I first wrote On Writing Well, the readers I had in mind were a small segment of the population.

    该词有三个意思,“部分,部门,片,块”、“(水果)瓣”、“弦、弓形”,此处意为“部分”,该句大意:当我第一次写作该书时,我以为这本书的读者只是人群中一小部分。

    a segment of:一部分

    Excerpt

    Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.It's impossible for a muddy thinker to write good English.

    If the reader is lost, the reader is usually because the writer hasn't been careful enough. That carelessness can take any number of forms.

    感想:说来你可能不信,我也试着写过东西——普通的四流小说。最开始写同人文,然后觉得那个灵感不用来写原创简直可惜,于是凭着一腔热血开了坑。因为那个创意还不错,开始看的人挺多;然而没有大题框架,导致我后来就在乱写,常常想到什么写什么,句子怎么华美怎么来,乱七八糟的东西一大堆,结果后来就没什么人看了,自己自信心受挫,于是文坑了……今次参加这个共读会,很大一部分是为了提高自己的表达能力,看到这两段的时候觉得好有道理为什么这么迟才看到,于是把它摘抄下来了。

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