Vocabulary:
1.This is a chapter of scraps廢料?and morsels碎屑—small admonitions告誡,勸告?on many points that I have collected under one, as they say, umbrella總括.
2.Many verbs also carry in their imagery or in their sound a suggestion of what they mean: glitter, dazzle, twirl, beguile, scatter, swagger, poke, pamper, vex.
glitter: 1.?to shine brightly with flashing points of light (ex. The river glittered in the sunlight.)
2. His blue eyes glittered with anger.
dazzle:?1. if a very bright light dazzles you, it stops you form seeing properly for a short time
2. to make someone fell strong admiration
twirl: to turn around and around or make sth do this 卷曲,快速旋轉
beguile: 1.使陶醉 She was beguiled by his smooth talk.
2.哄騙 beguile sb into doing sth
pamper:悉心照料 pamper yourself
3.The second is necessarily longer and it has an insipid無生氣的,平淡的?quality
Reflection:
1. Use precise verbs, adverbs and?adjectives that do necessary work.
的確,我的寫作老師也曾強調(diào)動詞用好會讓文章上一個檔次,而不是通篇have, make 0.0
2. 如開篇所說,這章的確是一個umbrella, 作者總結了很多實用寫作小技巧。