Vocabulary:
1.The sentence is so folksy淳樸友好自然的?that we imagine ourselves sitting on the porch走廊 of White’s house in Maine.White is in a rocking chair, puffing吸,抽(煙),噴,吐?on a pipe, and the words just tumble out亂七八糟地倒出來 in his storyteller’s voice.
2.?he’s not trying to ingratiate討好,諂媚 himself with the reader.
3.?It’s crude. It’s corny老生常談的. It’s verbose冗長的,啰嗦的.
4.?I realize I’m trying to pin down確實,證實,迫使…作出決定(或明確表態(tài)) a matter that’s subjective; one person’s beautiful object is somebody else’s kitsch粗劣的作品,迎合低級趣味的作品.
5.?Not that clichés are easy to stamp out.消滅
Reflection:
1. Writing is the expression of every person’s individuality, and we know what we like when it comes along. /Go with what seems inevitable in your own heritage. Embrace it and it may lead you to eloquence.
這部分內(nèi)容與前面所講的“Create your own style to the audience--yourself.”重合,也是更進一步教你怎么做。每個人的文字都有自己的的風格,發(fā)現(xiàn)他接受他會幫助你write well。昨天和朋友還聊起來五月天,周杰倫等人的歌都是一個調(diào)調(diào),萬變不離其宗。文字不也是嗎?吳曉波,林語堂,余秋雨,魯迅這些人的文字也同樣都是一個調(diào)調(diào)。(本來想列舉出來特點的。。奈何詞不達意T T)
2. Perfect taste, like perfect pitch, is a gift from God. But a certain amount can be acquired. The trick is to study writers who have it.
hhh,昨天還在寫輸入的重要性,沒想到今天就讀到了這一點。