On Writing Well-Chapter 3 & 4

2017.10.31

Part 1 Words

1.smother 使窒息

原文：They are all weeds that will smother what you write.

造句：to be smothered by the heavy smoke

2.insidious 阴险的，潜伏的

原文：Just as insidious are all the word clusters with which we explain how we propose to go about our explaining:"I might add,""It should be pointed out ,""It is interesting to note ."

解释：ADJ， something that is insidious is unpleasant or dangerous and develops gradually without being noticed.

造句：The changes are insidious, and will not produce a noticeable effect for 15 to

20 years.变化是悄然发生的，15到20年间不会产生明显效果。

3.develop the same eye 也有同样的能力

原文： You can develop the same eye.

原文：My reason for bracketing the students' superfluous words, instead of crossing them out, was to avoid violating their sacred prose.

4.superfluous: not necessory

造句：It is superfluous to add feet to the snake while painting.

5.cross them out :划掉

造句：Cross out that last sentence and put this in instead.

Cross out this phrase.

Part 2 感悟

好的文章都是一遍遍地斟酌修改，最后才能定稿完成。正如我们的日常工作，也是需要一遍一遍地核对修改后，保证正确性才能算完成！所谓的一气呵成，也应该是在自己的脑海里演练很多遍后写下来的，但是写下来的东西有些细节也还是要再三修改的。

文章在简单明了的基础上，加上适当的个人风格修饰。过多的修饰就是画蛇添足，裹脚布一样又臭又长。