Content:
Part I | Principles
1. The Transaction
2. Simplicity
3. Clutter (Writing clean English Sentence)
4. Style (Preserving your identity)
5. The audience (Who am I writing for)
6. Words (The only tools you’ve got)
7. Usage (What is good usage)
Part II | Methods
8. Unity (Anchor of good writing)
9. The lead and the ending
10. Bits and pieces
Part II | Forms
11. Nonfiction as Literature
12. Writing About People: The Interview
13. Writing About Places: The travel article
14. Writing About Yourself: The Memoir
15. Science and Technology
16. Business Writing:Writing in Your Job
17. Sports
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Words and Expressions:
1. The cure is worse than the ailment.
N-COUNT 疾病；病痛；（尤指）微恙
An ailment is an illness, especially one that is not very serious.
The pharmacist can assist you with the treatment of common ailments.
藥劑師能幫你治療一般的病痛。
2. many a baseball fan who flunked simple arithmetic in school can perform prodigies of instant calculation in the ballpark.
VERB 在(考試)中不及格;未通過(某一課程)
If you flunk an exam or a course, you fail to reach the required standard.
【語法信息】：V n
【語域標(biāo)簽】：mainly AM 主美
【STYLE標(biāo)簽】：INFORMAL 非正式
Your son is upset because he flunked a history exam.
你兒子心煩意亂是因?yàn)闆]有通過歷史考試。
3. It has a certain mounting hilarity.
N-UNCOUNT 歡鬧;嬉笑
Hilarity is great amusement and laughter.
4.No other player visible to my generation has concentrated within himself so much of the sport’s poignance ...
poignance是poigency的同義詞
N-UNCOUNT 辛酸;慘痛
Poignancy is the quality that something has when it affects you deeply and makes you feel very sad.
The film contains moments of almost unbearable poignancy...
電影中有幾段幾乎讓人辛酸得不忍目睹。
There is a certain poignancy about Eric.
埃里克的身上有一種哀傷。
5. the players are strung as tightly as their high-tech racquets.
下列含義時，racquet = racket.
1.N-COUNT （網(wǎng)球、壁球、羽毛球等用的）球拍
A racket is an oval-shaped bat with strings across it. Rackets are used in tennis, squash, and badminton.
【搭配模式】：oft n N
Tennis rackets and balls are provided.
提供網(wǎng)球拍及網(wǎng)球。
2.N-UNCOUNT 硬球壁球
Rackets is a game which is similar to squash but which is played with a hard ball.
6. In football and basketball the pay is sky-high, and so are the sulks.
VERB 生悶氣;面有慍色;悶悶不樂
If you sulk, you are silent and bad-tempered for a while because you are annoyed about something.
【語法信息】：V
【搭配模式】：oftin/intoaN
He turned his back and sulked.
他轉(zhuǎn)過身去，面帶慍色。
Sulk is also a noun.
He went off in asulk...
他悶悶不樂地離開了。
Now she must be tired of my sulks.
現(xiàn)在她肯定受夠了我的壞脾氣。
Thoughts:
像天書一樣的前半章……
sportswriter，去掉sports首先應(yīng)該是個writer，也要遵循前幾章對writer的基本要求，不能因?yàn)轭I(lǐng)域不同而拋開writer這個身份。
What keeps most sportswriters from writing good English is the misapprehension that they shouldn't be trying to.
Sportsman，去掉sports也首先應(yīng)該是個man，圍繞著TA的前提是把TA當(dāng)“人”看，不能因?yàn)橥庠诘臇|西就舍棄作為man的本質(zhì)。
what makes them special is their humanity.
好的體育文章或作品，傳遞價值觀也好，表達(dá)夢想、堅(jiān)持、熱血也好，首先，要讓人看懂。
They only want the clearest picture of what happened.
其次，要有價值:
Those are the values to look for when you write about sport: people and places, time and transition.
最后但最重要，要有humanity:
Zinser這段話完全代表了我的心聲Remember that athletes are men and women who become part of our lives during the season, acting out our dreams or filling some other need for us, and we want that bond to be honored. Hold the hype and give us heroes who are believable.
雖然不一定有機(jī)會寫體育文章，不過下次看相關(guān)作品的時候，可以觀察一下作者是不是做到了以下幾點(diǎn):
Hang around the track and the stable, the stadium and the rink.
Observe closely.
Interview in depth.
Listen to old-timers.
Ponder the changes.
Write well.
拋開writer的體育作家如果拋開man去寫運(yùn)動員，終將是悲劇一場。
