PART ONE VOCABULARY

1.You’ll never make your mark as a writer unless you?develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning?that is almost obsessive.

obsess這個(gè)單詞我在這兩章實(shí)在是見了太多次忍不住去查到底是什么意思，文中還有obsessive，它的形容詞。obsess有兩種意思，第一種和spellbound意思有點(diǎn)像，但這個(gè)是動(dòng)詞使...癡迷，比如說(shuō)她美的令我神魂顛倒

e.g.she is absolutely so beautiful that obsessed with me.

第二種意思是對(duì)某事過(guò)分牽掛，念念不忘，be obsessing about sth。而obsessive的意思就是迷戀，obsessive有名詞和形容詞，當(dāng)作名詞時(shí)表強(qiáng)迫癥患者，表adj時(shí)有種貶義的癡迷，過(guò)度的迷戀。生活中有人對(duì)干凈有種癡迷，即所謂潔癖，我們可以說(shuō)an obsessive concern with cleanliness.

2.he was the most revered and influential?journalist of his generation.

revere代表admire and ?respect，是一種正式用法。在這里用一下我在單詞書學(xué)的phrase verb，look up to sb，這里的look up to就是表示respect and admire them.

3.Also bear in mind, when you’re choosing words and stringing them?together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read with their?eyes.

absurd有兩種意思，第一種就是ridiculous，第二種就是悖論的意思

e.g.it seems an absurd idea.

4.An occasional short sentence can carry a tremendous punch.

tremendous：very fast，big.寫這個(gè)單詞因?yàn)槲恼轮谐霈F(xiàn)很多表示“巨大”的意思，比如說(shuō)vast，但vast還有廣闊的意思

5.It’s the common currency of?newspapers and of magazines like People—a mixture of cheap words,?made-up words and clichés that have become so pervasive that a writer?can hardly help using them.

?pervasive：existing everywhere

e.g. the pervasive influence of fake news.

PART TWO THOUGHTS AND EXTRACT

It’s a fundamental question, and it has a fundamental answer: You are?writing for yourself.Besides, they’re always looking for?something new.（chapter5）

You are writing primarily to please yourself, and if you go about it with enjoyment you?will also entertain the readers who are worth writing for.（chapter5）

It’s the common currency of?newspapers and of magazines like People—a mixture of cheap words,made-up words and clichés that have become so pervasive that a writer?can hardly help using them. You must fight these phrases or you’ll sound?like every hack.

We are in the hands of a hack,and we know it right away. We stop reading.Don’t let yourself get in this position. The only way to avoid it is to?care deeply about words.

The race in writing is not to the swift but to the original.Writing is learned by imitation.Good writers of prose?must be part poet, always listening to what they write.

這些句子實(shí)在是太喜歡，我在讀的時(shí)候把它畫了下來(lái)。你到底是為了誰(shuí)而寫？本章標(biāo)題了是觀眾，你是為了迎合觀眾還是按內(nèi)心所想的寫的？承接了上章所說(shuō)風(fēng)格為自己的，寫作時(shí)如果自己寫嗨了讀者也能嗨了。文中舉例了Mencken，他的非小說(shuō)對(duì)后代都產(chǎn)生了深遠(yuǎn)的影響，原因就是他寫出了自己的風(fēng)格。第六章說(shuō)報(bào)紙雜志所用詞太普遍，就像FT TIMES與經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人，金融時(shí)報(bào)這種時(shí)效性新聞追求快即所謂時(shí)效性，所用詞普遍是為了有效傳遞消息。而經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人思考層次、深度都高一層，用詞表達(dá)方面更深思熟慮，因?yàn)楸划?dāng)做商業(yè)經(jīng)典，也是我們考試出題的范圍，仔細(xì)看會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)有時(shí)標(biāo)題是一語(yǔ)雙關(guān)的。比如說(shuō)有篇deep trouble，既指深海也指深陷困境。

而一個(gè)作家應(yīng)避免使用這些陳詞濫調(diào)，好的文學(xué)作品應(yīng)具有original原創(chuàng)性和個(gè)人風(fēng)格個(gè)人情感色彩，才能長(zhǎng)久流傳下去。