WORDS
1.Summon
Smalltown reporters dream of the moment when their editor will summon them to cover the pianist or the ballet troupe or the repertory company that has been booked into the local auditorium.
1.If you summon someone,you order them to come to you.
Eg.Alan summons the doctor.
The court summons Alan.
2.if you summon qualities, such as strength and courage,you make every effort to be brave.
Eg. It took her a full month to summon the courage to tell her mother.
她用了整整一個月才鼓足勇氣告訴了媽媽。
Summon =summon up
在文中應(yīng)該是第一種意思，傳喚，命令他們做某事
2.Minted
It’s also where reputations for wit are born. The American vernacular is rich in epigrams(警句）(“She ran the gamut of emotions from A to B”)minted by people like Dorothy Parker and George S. Kaufman, who became famous partly by minting them
If you describe something as newly minted or freshly minted, you mean that it is very new, and that it has only just been produced or completed. 嶄新鍛造的
Eg.He seemed to be pleased by this newly minted vehicle.
他似乎很滿意這輛新出廠的車。
the movie's freshly minted script.
這部電影新鮮出爐的劇本
仿寫：This is the newly minted masterpiece by the author.
3.Linger
We can almost see the camera lingering with studied sluggishness over the family crystal.
When something such as an idea, feeling, or illness lingers, it continues to exist for a long time, often much longer than expected.繼續(xù)留存
The scent of her perfume lingered on in the room...
她的香水味道在房間里久久不散。
A guerrilla war has lingered into its fourth decade...
一場游擊戰(zhàn)已經(jīng)持續(xù)了30多年。
仿寫：This case has lingered about 10 years.
4.Savor
What you do have to do, if you are assessing the first novel of a Southern author and weighing Faulkner’s influence, is to generate a provocative idea and throw it onto the page, where your readers can savor it.
(1).to enjoy the taste or smell of (something) for as long as possible
He savored the aroma of the baking pies.
They savored every last morsel of food.
(2).to enjoy (something) for a long time
She was just savoring the moment.
The team is still savoring its victory.
Enjoy,relish 的同義詞,文中是說讓讀者能喜歡。
仿寫:I am savoring the time with you.
Provocative 挑釁的，有爭議的
Provoke 挑釁，激怒
5.Intertwine
Movies are intertwined with our daily lives and attitudes, our memories and myths.
If one thing intertwine with another thing,they two are closely connected.
Eg. Their destinies are intertwined...
他們的命運(yùn)交織在一起。
記憶：inter 相互的
Twine ，麻線。 相互纏繞在一起，密切聯(lián)系
仿寫：Mental health intertwine with our lives.
以后表達(dá)。。。與。。密切相關(guān)，就可以用這個表達(dá)
REFLECTION
在閱讀這章時，我似乎不能很好地identify with Zinser.或許是對art這個題材的評論，平時接觸地比較少，所以無法很好地體會怎樣才是好的評論，加之這章的生詞和結(jié)構(gòu)讓我很難懂。所以就讀了個一知半解。
One is that critics should like—or, better still, love—the medium they are reviewing. If you think movies are dumb, don’t write about them.
criticism is only one person’s opinion. But he should go to every movie wanting to like it. If he is more often disappointed than pleased, it’s because the film has failed to live up to its best possibilities.This is far different from the critic who prides himself on hating everything.
對于這段話我是這樣理解的：如果你覺得一個影片很無聊，還是不要去評論的為好。因?yàn)橄埠檬且粋€很主觀的事，這僅代表了個人觀點(diǎn)。所以我認(rèn)為zinser想說的是，如果你被自己的喜好所支配，你就會有失偏頗。當(dāng)一個評論家在看影片時，要盡量去喜歡它，但是始終還是失望大于享受的話，這才說明時那部影片沒有達(dá)到所要的效果。這和你用否定他人來體現(xiàn)自己的優(yōu)越是截然不同的。所以zinser還是很強(qiáng)調(diào)客觀的。
don’t give away too much of the plot. Tell readers just enough to let them decide whether it’s the kind of story they tend to enjoy, but not so much that you’ll kill their enjoyment.
這可能可以部分體現(xiàn)我們所說的“劇透”吧。確實(shí)，影評人應(yīng)該把握的“度”很重要。需要先很客觀地傳達(dá)這是怎樣的一個故事，但又不能太用力，說了太多，大家可能覺得都沒什么好看的了。
