On Writing Well 10.30

Words and Expressions

1.emulate

【原文】His was the seemingly effortless style--achieved, I knew, with great effort—that I want to emulate and whenever I began a new project I would first read some White to get his cadences my ear.

【释义】Try to do sth.as well as sb. Because you admire him.

【例句】Actually you have become one of my role models that I try to emulate.

【仿写】The fans often emulate the actions of their models.

2.wrestle with

【原文】I’ve also incorporated lessons I learned by continuing to wrestle with  with the craft myself, writing books on subjects I hadn’t tried before: baseball and music and American history.

【释义】1.本义:和......摔跤

2.引申义:try to deal with a difficult problem .处理一个比较难的问题。

Sentences

1.Nobody told all the new computer writers that the essence of writting is rewriting. Just because they’re writing fluently doesn’t mean they’re writing well.没有人告诉所有的新的靠计算机写作的作家:写作的本质是重写。仅仅因为他们写得很流利并不意味着他们写得很好。

2.But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest component. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that’s already in the verb, every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing what these are the thousand doing what—these are the thousand and one adulterants that weaken the strength of a sentence. And they usually occur in proportion to education and rank.但是好的写作的秘诀是把每句话都带到最清楚的部分。每一个没有任何功能的字，每一个可以变短的长难词，每一个使万千读者不确定他们正在读什么的被动结构被动结构——这些所有的冗杂，都会削弱一个句子的力量，并且他们通常和教育以及等级排列成比例。

反思

一直以来在写作方面都很不自信，但是也不得法。不知道到底怎样才能地道，才能更好。On Writing Well这本书呢也是加入购物车差不多一年多了。一直没有下定决心买来读。这次趁着Eric读书会的机会，给自己一个时限，逼自己一把，把一本书读了。今天读了前四章，起码学到了怎样让文章能被别人读懂，其实最重要的还是记住读者。以读者的视野去写，写出来的文章一定不会太差。