Words & Phrases
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hassle
A.noun
①Uncountable and countable(trouble)麻煩
to be a hassle to do [something]; 做某事很麻煩
②Uncountable(pestering)糾纏
don't give me any hassle! 別跟我頂嘴！
B.transitive verb 不斷煩擾
to hassle [somebody] to do [something] 纏著某人做某事
to feel hassled about [something] 對某事物感到煩心
to hassle [somebody] with complaints 老是向某人抱怨
stop hassling me! 別老煩我！
Earlier I mentioned an incident of college students hassling the administration, and in the last chapter I described myself as a word freak.
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hold the fort
盡他人代責
To keep some place in line or operational in someone else's absence.
It proves that formal syntax can’t hold the fort forever against a speaker’s more comfortable way of getting the same thing said.
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the advent of
noun Uncountable
(of technique, product)出現:the time when something first begins to be widely used
(of person)到來
the advent of a new era
新時代的到來
Before the advent of computers it wasn’t needed.
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provocative
①(sexually suggestive)撩人的?smile, pose, dress?
②(causing controversy) 引起爭議的?book, title?(causing offence) 挑釁的 ?comment, behaviour?
he is being deliberately provocative
他是在蓄意挑釁
As for what point you want to make, every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn’t have before.
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myriad
A.noun
無數
a myriad of [something], myriads of [something];
無數的某物
a myriad of choices
B.adjective 無數的
myriad stars/colours 繁星/色彩斑斕
Thoughts
- 詞語的用法很重要，在寫作中盡量要用對詞。對于一些新詞和新用法要謹慎使用。
- 寫作中的統一性很重要，時態的一致性，人稱的一致性亦或是情緒的一致性都是很重要的。
Therefore think small. Decide what corner of your subject you’re going to bite off, and be content to cover it well and stop. This is also a matter of energy and morale. An unwieldy writing task is a drain on your enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the force that keeps you going and keeps the reader in your grip. When your zest begins to ebb, the reader is the first person to know it.
- 寫作時要確定一個基本點，不要嘗試概括描述所有的東西。
