Expressions
That carry an invidious meaning or some overtone of judgement.
unpleasant, especially because it is likely to offend people or make you unpopular 令人不快的，惹人反感的 【書面】
I don’t like baseball movies that go into slow motion when the batter hits a home run, to notify me that it’s a pregnant moment.
耐人尋味,意味深長(zhǎng)的
pregnant pause/silence
He stopped, and there was a pregnant pause.
他停住了，那是個(gè)意味深長(zhǎng)的停頓。
pregnant with sth
containing a lot of a quality formal 蘊(yùn)涵豐富的…，飽含… 【正式】
Every phrase in this poem is pregnant with meaning.
這首詩(shī)的片言只語(yǔ)都充滿深意。
... and the camps are infested with laconic men who have spent a lifetime appraising talent.
大批出沒(méi)，讓我想起前文中的swarm，也是指成群的?！皌hat vast swarm of people who are famous for being famous...”
...spotted an empty seat next to a weathered man in his sixties who ...
經(jīng)過(guò)風(fēng)吹雨打的; 飽經(jīng)風(fēng)霜的
No subject is too specialized or too quirky if you make an honest connection with it when you write about it.
Honest在這里不是誠(chéng)實(shí)的意思，也許是努力認(rèn)真的意思
*honest work is done using your own efforts and without cheating 用正當(dāng)手段的，努力認(rèn)真的
I bet he’s never done an honest day’s work in his life!
我敢說(shuō)他這輩子從未認(rèn)認(rèn)真真工作過(guò)一天！
Writing is an evolving process. Not a finished product.
There’s nothing more interesting than the truth... color is organic to the fact. Your job is to present the colorful fact.
Summary
1. 留意某些單詞和表達(dá)方式中對(duì)性別的歧視；
2. 可以使用he or she、we和you(可以增強(qiáng)親近感）來(lái)代替he，用通用詞代替特指詞，盡量使用無(wú)性別指向的詞匯；
3. 修改是寫作的精髓：
reshape-改變語(yǔ)句順序；
tighten-增強(qiáng)思路的連貫（時(shí)間、地點(diǎn)、因果、轉(zhuǎn)折），突出中心意義；
refine-注意語(yǔ)言的音律節(jié)奏、增加事實(shí)細(xì)節(jié)、使用生動(dòng)而恰當(dāng)?shù)脑~匯（通過(guò)朗讀來(lái)檢查）；
4. 非小說(shuō)作者的任務(wù)是將有趣的事實(shí)用文字呈現(xiàn)出來(lái)，不需要畫蛇添足地添磚加瓦；相信讀者的智商，留下想象和思考的空間；
5. 根據(jù)興趣選題才能更好地抓住讀者。沒(méi)有愚蠢、無(wú)聊、奇怪、太專業(yè)的話題，只要寫得好，讀者自然會(huì)愿意讀。
Reflection
It’s interesting that Zinsser pointed out that “men get mugged; a woman who gets mugged is a shapely stewardess or an pert brunette.”It’s a classic act of materializing women, and we seldom notice that it could steal the point of the report. It almost turns a social news into a gossip news.
I’m also enlightened about the size of vocabulary that carrys a sexual prejudice. We should stay alert to these words and usage，and try to diminish the use of such expressions in our own writing.
