On Writing Well - CH17

一. 感想

关于体育类文章的写作，Zinsser提到了以下观点：

What gives the article its depth is that it's the work of a writer, not a sportswriter.

If you want to write about sports, remember that the men and women you're writing about are doing something immensely difficult, and they have their pride. You, too, are doing a job that has its codes of honor.

Observe closely. Interview in depth. Listen to old-timers. Ponder the changes. Write well.

体育类题材的写作，固然有其特性，这是行业本身所决定的。例如绝大多数的运动员需要童子功，从小就要经受比同龄人艰苦得多的训练生活。开始职业生涯后，也将面临巨大的挑战。

记得我当时看网球冠军李娜的自传《独自上场》时，就对她从小学球的经历，以及比赛时所承受的精神压力和伤病折磨印象极其深刻。

而且，体育赛事本身又具有对抗性强、竞争激烈、关注度高等特性。所以突出其特质，就成了体育写作的重点。

除此以外，更多的是写作本身的共性。如何令文章更有深度，作品更吸引人等，是无论我们写任何类型的文章，都需要考虑的问题。

二. 字词

1. addict

(1) 原文：As an addict of the sports pages in my boyhood, I learned about the circuit clout before I learned about the electrical circuit.

(2) 字典解释：someone who is very interested in something and spends a lot of doing it

(3) 造句：As an addict of music I often go to the concert.

2. lanky & chunky

(1) 原文：Southpaws were always lanky, portsiders always chunky, though I've never heard "chunky" applied to anything else except peanut butter (to distinguish it from "creamy"), and I have no idea what a chunky person would look like.

(2) 字典解释：

lanky: someone who is lanky is tall and thin, and moves awkwardly

chunky: someone who is chunky has a broad, heavy body

(3) 造句：Have you seen the animation "No-brain and Unhappiness"? No-brain is lanky and Unhappiness is chunky.

3. snuff out

(1) 原文：If not, he might bounce into a twin killing, snuffing out a rally and dimming his team’s hopes in the flag scramble.

(2) 字典解释：to stop or end something in a sudden way    扼杀

(3) 造句：Bad education snuffs out children's imagination.

4. picturesque

(1) 原文：Shouldn’t we be grateful for a word so picturesque?

(2) 字典解释：unusual, interesting, or sometimes rude words to describe something

(3) 造句：I really like this book, because the words in it is so picturesque.

5. novelty

(1) 原文：I like to think he allowed himself the small smile that is the due of anyone who invents a good novelty.

(2) 字典解释：something new and unusual which attracts people's attention and interest

(3) 造句：Nowadays seeing people reading on the train is a novelty.

6. old-timers

(1) 原文：Listen to old-timers.

(2) 字典解释：someone who has been doing a job or living in a place for a long time and knows a lot about it    老前辈

(3) 造句：We need to learn from old-timers.