I. Words & Expressions

The sentence is vague, giving us?a whiff of?the movie's mood but no image we can visualize.

a whiff of ?一點點，些許

eg. When I was walking around the street at night, I felt a whiff of danger.

They will trot out the hard-won words of their college education.

trot out?

bring out and show for inspection and admiration ?(非正式)重復翻出（老一套的借口和理由）

eg. Steve trotted out the same excuse.

trot （馬）疾步走、小跑

eg. He trotted off and came back a couple of minutes, holding a book.

Quote a few of his gaudy and unusual sentences and let the reader see how quirky they are.

gaudy

Something that's?gaudy?is showy, bright and definitely tacky. 花哨的

eg. She often wears some guady jewleries.

quirky

informal terms; strikingly unconventional 稀奇古怪的

eg. I like his quirky sense of humor.

II. Summary & Reflection

本章節(jié)內容主要介紹藝術題材（Critics & Columnist）Zinsser詳細給我們指出reviewer和critic的區(qū)別。

Reviewer更多的是對一部作品的客觀報導，少帶有主觀的評價，具備以下四個特征：

1.One is that critics should like, or better still love, the medium they are reviewing.

2.Another rule is: don’t give away too much of the plot.

3.A third principle is to use specific detail.

4.A final caution is to avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic’s quiver words.

Criticism相比之下更加嚴肅和專業(yè)。評價某一領域，要先專注于某中，成為該領域的行家。比如要評論戲劇，就要盡可能多看與其相關的每一部劇，無論好壞新舊。要知道這部劇的發(fā)展變化，這部劇導演和演員以前的作品。

This is criticism at its best: stylish, allusive, disturbing.

最后，作者提到一篇好的評論讓讀者快速進入到一個領域，開頭的預熱很重要。

You must make an immediate effort to orient your readers to the special world they are about to enter.

平常的評論和專欄看得比較少，以前是會經(jīng)常閱讀China Daily，后來是發(fā)現(xiàn)也還是要多閱讀國外的一些專欄和評論，譬如《經(jīng)濟學人》，國內外的文章對待同一問題可能有不同的見解。