1.words and expressions

trot out

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

反復提出，反復說陳舊的觀點或過時的信息；If you say that a person trots out old ideas or information, you are criticizing him or her for repeating them in a way that is not new or interesting. [V P n (not pron)] [Also V n P] [disapproval] [Informal]

Was it really necessary to trot out the same old stereotypes about Ireland?

真的有必要反復提關于愛爾蘭的那套老看法嗎？

delude

So don’t be deluded that criticism is an easy route to glory.

verb

? ? ~ sb / yourself (into doing sth) to make sb believe sth that is not true

? 欺騙；哄騙

? SYN? deceive :

? [VN]

? Don't be deluded into thinking that we are out of danger yet.

? 不要誤以為我們已脫離危險。

? You poor deluded creature.

? 你這上了當的可憐蟲。

? He's deluding himself if he thinks it's going to be easy.

? 他要是以為那事很容易,那就是自己欺騙自己。

? [VN that]

? She had been deluding herself that he loved her.

? 她一直欺騙自己說他愛著她。

oblivion

How adroitly Ozick warms up the waters, beckoning us to return to the literary landscape of her own college years and thereby understand her amazement at the tale of near oblivion she is about to unfold.

noun [U]

1. when something is completely forgotten or no longer important

? 被完全忘卻，被遺忘:

?sink / slip / pass etc into oblivion

?Wind power presents too many advantages to be allowed to sink into oblivion.

? 風力具有很多優(yōu)點，不該受到忽視。

?The loser's name has been consigned to oblivion (=completely forgotten) .

? 失敗者的姓名湮沒無聞了。

2. the state of being unconscious or of not noticing what is happening

? 無感覺（知覺）的狀態(tài); 漠視:

?the oblivion of sleep

? 睡眠中的無知覺狀態(tài)

?He had drunk himself into oblivion.

? 他喝得爛醉。

2.summary

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

2.don’t give away too much of the plot.

3. use specific detail.

4.avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic’s quiver words.