Chapter 19 Humor
1.parody
What make those pieces work was that they struck close to the form they were parodying.
to copy someone or something in a way that makes people laugh:
例：His style has often been parodied.
2.current
Humorist operate on a deep current than most people suspect.
an idea, feeling, or opinion that a particular group of people has:
例：The committee reflects the different political currents within the organization.
current of
例：There was an underlying current of discontent among teachers.
3.resurrect[?rez.?r'ekt]
Next resurrected Archy and Mehitabek, by Don Marquis, to show that this influential humorist also used an unorthodox medium-doggerel-for his message.
■to bring someone back to life 使復活，使起死回生
例：Almost all Christians believe that Jesus was resurrected from the dead.幾乎所有的基督徒都相信耶穌死而復生。
■to bring back something into use or existence that had disappeared or ended 重新使用；恢復；使重新流行
例：She has been busily trying to resurrect her Hollywood career.她一直奔忙，試圖重振她的好萊塢演藝生涯。
4.shed
His own influence hasn't been so easily shed.
?to get rid of something that you no longer need or want:
例：The company is planning to shed about a quarter of its workforce.
例：The magazine is desperately trying to shed its old-fashioned image.
仿：If you want to shed pounds，a healthy diet is needed.
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Shed is used especially in journalism. In everyday English, people usually say that someone or something gets rid of something.
拓展. shed light
a. shed light on to make something easier to understand, by providing new or better information
例：Recent research has shed light on the causes of the disease.
例：Investigators hope to shed light on what started the fire.
b. if something sheds light, it lights the area around it:
The lamp shed a harsh yellow light.
單詞還有動物蛻皮的意思，此外還有表達shed tears
5.wing
In short, our class began by striving first for humor and hoping to wing a few truths along the way.
?wing it (spoken) to do something without planning or preparing it:
例：We’ll just have to wing it.
Thoughts
看這章標題是幽默，于是帶著輕松的心情開始閱讀，結果卻還是和前一章一樣難讀。所以只對理論性的內容有一些印象。對于幽默這個概念，一般是電視里看的比較多，比如喜劇啊，小品啊，或者綜藝節目，比如《天天向上》、《極限挑戰》，但真要想想看過什么幽默的書籍，還真是很少。只能想到以前喜歡看韓寒的一些調侃的文章，或者網上的一些段子。韓寒的文章總是在反諷一些社會現象，讀來讓人覺得大快人心。
作者說到的principles for the writer of humor：
1. a superb writer：master the craft of writing good "straight" English
2.? Don't search for the outlandish and scorn what seems too ordinary
3.? ?don't strain for laughs, humor is built on surprise.
幽默其實是寫作的高級別了，是必須建立在好的寫作的基礎上，然后又讓人在不經意間感受到幽默。
