TGG - Chapter14

1 - 阅读感悟

（1）人生有起有落，十四章写的就是苏东坡的“落”。本章按照时间顺序，从讲述苏东坡被捕的导火索开始，按逮捕——入狱——审判——判后释放及其影响依次来写。

SU TUNGPO, to use the poet's own expression, had gone on "spitting out flies found in one's food," and had so far escaped scot-free. But the hundredth time he "spat," he was caught.

常在河边走哪有不湿鞋，林语堂用苏东坡讲过的话"spitting out flies found in one's food"来开头，引人入胜。

（2）文中林语堂用了同义替换的表达，例如“小人”，文中用了petty men和little fellow的表达；表示“命偿”时，用到了should pay with his life和should be killed。

关于同义替换，读经济学人时感觉更明显，例如Expelling Chinese people from Chinese cities一文中，“民工”的表达方式有rural folk who move to the cities; migrants from the countryside;和 settlers from eleswhere。

（3）

Some of these poems were highly deceptive and had hidden points to be appreciated only when one understood the historical references.

仿佛找到了我读不透诗词的原因。

另外最近了解到“词链儿”这个词，简言之就是要把字词放到句子和特定语境中传来起来学习记忆，比如上述这个句子，可以提炼一个模型出来：sth. is/does ... only when ....然后把自己想表达的内容嵌入句子内，如Children can fully understand their parents only when they become someone's parents.

2 - Central Question

Why Su Tungpo is arrested for a trial and what is the result of the trial?

3 - Words

（1）subject 

文中多次出现“the duty of a subject”。subject常用的意思有主题、话题、科目、对象等，在文中用了citizen的意思，表示“公民，臣民，国民”。

（2）amount to

① to produce (a total) when added together

② to be the same in meaning or effect as sth.

文中用的是第二个意思，分别用在“It all amounted to this:... ...”；“This practically amounted to her dying wish.”

（3）incorrigible

意思是not able to be corrected or changed 屡教不改的，不可救药的（常为幽默用法）。这个词源与correct相同，可联系起来记忆。

文末，苏东坡重获自由后仍这样形容自己“I am really incorrigible.”，可见其心“大”。林语堂也多次写到，对于表达心中所想，苏东坡并不care后果，这又与文章开头"spitting out flies found in one's food"相呼应。