1.mint/m?nt/CET6 TEM4 (minting,minted,mints)V-TTomintcoins or medals means to make them in a mint. 鑄造———文中指文字的創(chuàng)造，我會想到create，但沒有mint地道

2.freak/fri?k/TEM8N-COUNTIf you describe someone as a particular kind offreak, you are emphasizing that they are very enthusiastic about a thing or activity, and often seem to think about nothing else. 狂熱愛好者——只記得怪胎，但是文中講到work freak應該是指工作狂

3.fabric/?f?br?k/CET4 TEM4N-SING The?fabric?of a society or system is its basic structure, with all the customs and beliefs that make it work successfully. (社會或系統(tǒng)的) 結構——文中講語言是一種結構

4.confront/k?n?fr?nt/CET4 TEM4 (confronting,confronted,confronts)V-TIf youconfronta difficult situation or issue, you accept the fact that it exists and try to deal with it. 正視 (困難局面或問題)——當我們想表達正視的時候，會容易用face來含糊替代

5.appraise/??pre?z/CET6 TEM8 (appraising,appraised,appraises)

V-TIf youappraisesomething or someone, you consider them carefully and form an opinion about them. 評價——assess是deals with issue of measurement, 這里的評價更多是價值

1.Which ones should be ushered in, which thrown out on their ear?——表達了作者他們嚴謹?shù)貙Υ@些用法，被認可的用法會像賓客一樣領進門，反之則在門口就被扔掉

2.But guardians of usage are doing only half their job if they merely

keep the language from becoming sloppy.——阻止語言變得隨意還不夠

3.The other half of the job is to help the language grow by welcoming any immigrant that will bring strength or color.——兩方面的考慮，除了防止語言變得隨意，還要讓語言發(fā)展地更加豐富多彩

感悟：很多時候，我們是為了記單詞而去做背誦這樣的機械工作，我們的態(tài)度是懶散的，沒有認真去理解單詞在某個語境或多個語境中的意思與區(qū)別，沒有多去找找其他例子，這是我們不能準確表達自己的原因之一；對一些流行的詞語，我們如果要使用，就要仔細去查查詞語背后的來源，原本的意思等等，