《无声告白》笔记1 2017.6.1

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阅读第一印象

初读第一章，觉得作者颇有中国古典文字“情景交融，藏情于景”的写作功力。

王国维说：“文学中有二元质焉：曰情，曰景。” 所谓“情”指“感情”“情绪”“思想”“想法”等作者主观的内蕴实质，是作品主旨；而“景”则指由人所遇、所想、所见的“人、事、物、景”所构成的社会生活图景，它是一种客观存在，反映在作品中就是对生活的再现体，是承载主旨的“形 象”。

作者伍绮诗没有追求用华丽的文字表达沉重、无助的情绪，她着重于刻画鲜活的生活图景，在一幅幅生活画面下，情感于画面中自然流露。在描绘景物的文字之外于合适之处用带浓郁感情色彩的字、词、句轻轻点出。藏情于景，一切都通过逼真的画面来表达，虽不言情，但情藏景中，更显得情深意浓。

类似下面这段的描写在第一章大量存在

“Nath studies the grain of the kitchen table, the open album in front of him. The missing photo leaves a gap in the page, a clear plastic window showing the blank white lining of the cover. Their mother runs her hand down the column of the phone book, staining her fingertip gray. Under cover of the tablecloth, Hannah stretches her legs and touches one toe to Nath’s. A toe of comfort. But he doesn’t look up. Instead he closes the album, and across the table, his mother crosses another name off the list.”

Nath的内心感情通过一系列的物品描述，从餐桌到相册，到照片拿走后留下空白，再到父母的一系列动作。颇有电影镜头层层推进的感觉。作者没有写一个情字，我们却能够感受到Nath那种欲言不能，内心的纠结和担心。

一、故事脉胳

Lydia死了，但是家里还不知道。在她失踪后。作者从Lydia的母亲，父亲，哥哥，妹妹几个家庭成员的不同角度展开故事。这个家庭是个中美组合家庭，母亲是家庭妇女，父亲是大学教授，哥哥马上进入哈佛大学，妹妹在上五年级。

通过家庭人物的心理活动，我们对Lydia有了大概轮廓：她是父母的掌上明珠，三个孩子中最疼爱的一个；她孤单，没有朋友，却在父母面前扮演成爱交际，有朋友的样子；家教严，成绩好。她的是哥哥Nath知道一些她的秘密，却不敢告诉父母。

Lydia死了，几天后尸体从湖中打捞出来了。

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二、每日用词

1.  rattle off (something):to say something quickly.

Once, he had stayed on the phone line after Lydia picked up and heard not gossip, but his sister’s voice duly rattling off assignments...

Think carefully before you rattle off your answers.

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2.  on edge : nervous or worried.

His mother is already on edge, startling every time the refrigerator motor kicks on or off.

这句话也蛮实用的

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3. hole up (somewhere): to stay in a hidden place 猫在某个地方

Lydia had been holed up in her room, and when they sat down at the table, he’d asked her how the past few days had been.”

She is worried about his son holing up in his room all day playing video game.

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4. fish:  search, typically by groping or feeling for something concealed（摸索着）寻找, 搜寻：

Hannah leans over the edge of her bed and fishes her book from beneath the dust ruffle.

She fished for her purse in her handbag.

他摸索着寻找自己的登记证, 然后把它举起放到了警察的手电筒前。

二、句子赏析

这一章实用的句子特别多，今天总结一些动作。

1.She’d tugged the corner of each eye outward with a fingertip. 拉眼角

拉维奇的这个动作最近引发了热引，说这个动作有歧视华人的意思。不过，在这本书里，似首没有太明确指出这个动作有歧视性。

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2. As Nath drove past, Jack looked up and gave the merest nod of the head, a cigarette clenched in the corner of his mouth.

嘴里叨根烟。很实用！

3. James does the calling, carefully and slowly, clicking the dial around with one finger. 

用一根手指拨号。click即表现了动作，还有声音

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4. It was sticky: you had to push it with you hip to get it to latch.

门不好锁的时候我们经常作这个动作，用臀部顶住门。