一 words and expressions

1.?When he turned 65 I began to pester him.

pester: to annoy someone, especially by asking them many times to do something不斷煩擾，糾纏〔尤指不斷要求某人做某事〕

2.?or that was framed by war or some other social upheaval.

upheaval:?(a) great change, especially causing or involving much difficulty, activity or trouble激變；動(dòng)蕩；劇變

3.?and the sight of my mother on her hands and knees scrubbing the linoleum on the dining room floor

scrub: 表達(dá)擦地板擦桌子時(shí)可以用這個(gè)詞。

4.?Together we researched our past, a search that for me culminated in the Longest Walk, a march on Washington in 1978.

culminate in ：If an event or series of events culminates in something, it ends with it, having developed until it reaches this point以…告終；達(dá)到…的頂點(diǎn)

二 thoughts

今天讀的這章講的是如何寫好回憶錄。

But the most interesting character in a memoir, we hope, will turn out to be the person who wrote it.

確實(shí)，我們自己是自己人生的主角。為了更好地了解自己，記錄自己的心路歷程，回憶錄是一種很好的形式。文中提到了一些移民去美國(guó)的華裔小孩子的自我回憶，這使我想起了讀書會(huì)之前讀的無聲告白中的James. 我覺得一個(gè)人敢于寫回憶錄，也就表明他有勇氣接受過去那個(gè)不夠“完美”的自己，能夠積極面對(duì)自己過去的不成熟與種種負(fù)面情緒。

The best gift you have to offer when you write personal history is the gift of yourself. Give yourself permission to write about yourself, and have a good time doing it.