I. Words & Expressions

The sentence is vague, giving us a whiff of the movie's mood but no image we can visualize.

a whiff of 一点点，些许

eg. When I was walking around the street at night, I felt a whiff of danger.

They will trot out the hard-won words of their college education.

trot out

bring out and show for inspection and admiration (非正式)重复翻出（老一套的借口和理由）

eg. Steve trotted out the same excuse.

trot （马）疾步走、小跑

eg. He trotted off and came back a couple of minutes, holding a book.

Quote a few of his gaudy and unusual sentences and let the reader see how quirky they are.

gaudy

Something that's gaudy is showy, bright and definitely tacky. 花哨的

eg. She often wears some guady jewleries.

quirky

informal terms; strikingly unconventional 稀奇古怪的

eg. I like his quirky sense of humor.

II. Summary & Reflection

本章节内容主要介绍艺术题材（Critics & Columnist）Zinsser详细给我们指出reviewer和critic的区别。

Reviewer更多的是对一部作品的客观报导，少带有主观的评价，具备以下四个特征：

1.One is that critics should like, or better still love, the medium they are reviewing.

2.Another rule is: don’t give away too much of the plot.

3.A third principle is to use specific detail.

4.A final caution is to avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic’s quiver words.

Criticism相比之下更加严肃和专业。评价某一领域，要先专注于某中，成为该领域的行家。比如要评论戏剧，就要尽可能多看与其相关的每一部剧，无论好坏新旧。要知道这部剧的发展变化，这部剧导演和演员以前的作品。

This is criticism at its best: stylish, allusive, disturbing.

最后，作者提到一篇好的评论让读者快速进入到一个领域，开头的预热很重要。

You must make an immediate effort to orient your readers to the special world they are about to enter.

平常的评论和专栏看得比较少，以前是会经常阅读China Daily，后来是发现也还是要多阅读国外的一些专栏和评论，譬如《经济学人》，国内外的文章对待同一问题可能有不同的见解。