Chapter 3

我想东坡的母亲在他的成长过程中起到了极其重要的作用。她渲染了儿子一生的底色。东坡的才华有天生也有后天习得，妈妈是他的启蒙老师。东坡的性格豁达自信，最了不起，这源于他童年的安全感吧我认为。

单词

1 court。 宫廷，祈求

Courting death themselves, the good scholars time and again impeached the ruling clique

2 impeach 检举控告弹劾

Maybe trump will be impeached for abstraction of justice .

3 coterie 小团体的

It’s a kind of coterie language.

有关典故的一段话很有意思。抄在这里。

The use of a famous phrase or of an allusion without indicating the  source aroused an aristocratic and egoistic pleasure in the learned reader. It was a kind of coterie language.  The reader conceived a respect for the writer for writing It and for himself for understanding it.  It worked by suggestion and association of ideas and it was always  more effective than an explicit statement that lack the charm of suggestion.