Vocabulary:

1. I think we should banish驅逐，趕走，此處可為不再提及?all further mention of the words ‘literature’ and ‘literary’ and ‘literati.

He was banished from his homeland due to opposite political standpoint.

2.?But the great preponderance多數(shù)，優(yōu)勢，主體?of what writers now write and sell

The preponderance of China is the huge amount of people.

3.?don’t be buffaloed愚弄?into the idea that it’s an inferior species.

4.?Probably it’s difficult for anyone who remembers the prodigious巨大的?success of Gone With the Wind

5.When you first heard them they sounded so felicitous（措辭）恰當?shù)?that you didn’t give them a second thought.

Reflection:

"Good writing is good writing, whatever form it takes and whatever we call it."

中國古代文學有華麗的駢文，精煉的古言絕句，或婉轉或磅礴的詞，各有千秋各領風騷。而小說和非小說不也是這樣嗎？題材文體沒有高下，內(nèi)容質(zhì)量才有高低。