Vocabulary:
1.We voted heavily against “cohort同伙,共犯” as a synonym for “colleague,” except when the tone was?jocular幽默的,詼諧的.
His cohorts are arrested soon.
2.colloquialisms口語,俗語like “the bottom line” and strays like “into” (“He’s into backgammon and she’s into jogging”).
3.it satisfies your readers’ subconscious need for order and reassures them that all is well?at the helm掌舵,掌握之中.
Elon Musk is at the helm of SpaceX and Tesla.
Reflection:
1. “One helpful approach is to try to separate usage from jargon.”
之前讀第一章時群里有小伙伴(Regina Adelaide)提到了critical thinking中對專業用語(不可以有judgement, caregiver等)的思考,沒想到這里作者也明確提了出來。
2. “Good usage, to me, consists of using good words if they already exist—as they almost always do—to express myself clearly and simply to someone else. ”
恰恰也是我認為的最好的文字,明晰而簡潔。
3. Unity of pronoun or tense or mood. Unity is the anchor of good writing.