TGG - Chapter 25

1 - 阅读感悟

(1) The price for such freedom was the willingness to forsake fame and wealth, the ability to endure simple food, dress, and shelter, to travel a thousand miles on foot, and to sleep in the open if necessary.

Remarks：事难两全，自由听起来很美，但真正的自由，如句中所说，同时意味着放弃与承受。endure用得很好，endure指经受长期的艰难、困苦或折磨而不屈服，强调持久力和意志坚强（常用于否定句中）。相近的词有bear，endure相当于bear bravely，bear侧重强调某人的心理或身体承受能力，强调忍受者对痛苦、忧虑、烦恼以及责任的承受力。

(2) “Why, that's eady! Huichow is not in heaven, isit? If you go on walking,you are bound to reach it.”

Remarks：值得学习的态度！人们往往被心中想象的困难吓住，不敢跳出舒适圈。但也许现实中的困难并没有那么可怕，即使真的有那么可怕，只要Start to do it and keep on dong it, you are bound to reach it!

(3) He could not be a public servant, but he could still be a pubic-minded citizen.

Remarks：苏东坡精力种种磨难，终于从立志“效忠君主”到致力于“服务人民”。苏东坡虽被政治伤害多次，但他并不郁郁寡欢，抱怨社会，他对生活依旧热爱，对人民依旧关心，对各种利民工程依旧热心，可见其豁达！此外，本句写作上，林语堂依旧使出了惯用的选词前后对称的方法，从用词上反应出苏东坡前后的同与不同。

2 -  Words & Expressions

(1) make (one's) peace with (someone or something)

原文：... for he  had made peace with his destiny and now accpted it without a doubt. 文中表示“接受”的意思。

意思：To reconcile with or accept something that previously was a source of stress, conflict, etc  接受；(与…)言归于好，(与…)讲和；(敌对与争论的双方)和解。

(2)melt away

原文：...after the night cloud's have melted away.文中表示“渐渐散去”的意思。

① to disappear slowly 渐渐消失；渐渐散去，(人)悄悄离开;

【例句】As the police sirens were heard, the crowd started to melt away.

②If a strong feeling melts away, you feel it less strongly and it disappears:

【例句】Her anger melted away when she read the letter.

③become liquefied by heat； thaw 熔化，融化；

④dissolve into ecstasies 着迷；神魂颠倒

【例句】His story melted away my soul．他的故事使我着了迷。

(3)outgrow

原文：SuTungpo had outgrown his young ambition to make his "emperor the best"...文中表示“长大成熟而不再”。

①If a child outgrows a piece of clothing, they grow bigger, so that it no longer fits them. 长大而穿不下 (衣服)

【例句】She outgrew her clothes so rapidly that Patsy was always having to buy new ones.

她长得太快，衣服很快就穿不下了，帕齐总得给她买新的。

② If you outgrow a particular way of behaving or thinking, you change and become more mature, so that you no longer behave or think in that way. 长大而不再具有

【例句】The girl may or may not outgrow her interest in fashion. 那个女孩可能会，也可能不会因长大而失去她对时尚的兴趣。