Vocabulary

1.And in the last chapter I described myself as a word freak.

freak:可作名词、形容词或动词，意为狂热、反常、怪异。下文有解释，“Freak” means an enthusiast.

2.Or put quotation marks around them to show that I'm mucking about in the argot of the youth culture and really know better.

quotation：名词，不可数时意为引证，可数时意为引文；行情；估价。意为估价时与estimate为同义词。

argot：from French,为单数不可数名词，与前文jargon是同义词，意为行话、隐语、黑话。

3.Which is typical of the pudgy new intruders from the land of sociology.

pudgy:=podgy,矮胖的.pudgy（美式）可记为pod（豆荚）+gy，因此胖乎乎的

intruders:intruder:入侵者，不受欢迎的人

sociology:社会学，复数：sociolgies.

4.his blood astir with reminiscence.

astir:骚动的，沸腾的

reminiscence:不可数名词时意为追忆，同义词为recollection;可数名词意为回忆录、怀旧谈话时同义词为memory;或者引起联想的类似事物。

该句意为，他的血液因回忆而沸腾起来。

Excerpt

Often we allowed an oral idiom that we forbade in print as too informal, fully realizing, however, that "the pen must at length comply with the tongue," as Samuel Johnson said, and that today's spoken garbage may be tomorrow's written gold.

A sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of .

The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead.

Incorrect usage will lost you the readers you would most like to win.

Good usage, to me, consists of using good words if they already exist - as they almost always do - to express myself clearly and simply to someone else.

The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.

这两章讲usage和unity。usage应该是承接上章word，继续讲词语的用法。归根结底，用词需要准确合适。对于新词，可按实际需要来进行写作。unity则属于methods这一部分，作者强调了主题、叙述视角与主要时态、整体氛围的统一性。对新手而言，这几点都不好控制，会不自觉有主题偏移、视角转换或者整体氛围的不协调。此外，虽是非虚构写作，然而假如像记流水账一样记下一天每时每刻，写作者将会发现这件工作没有结束之时。因此，删繁就简仍然需要。确定主要内容，剪去不必要的分支，让整体叙事简洁清晰。作者举《战争与和平》和《白鲸》的例子，是为了说明伟大的主题由每件具体的事构成，确定主题以后每一方面事情都应围绕主题进行。想起西方汉学家擅长以小事反应巨大变革。非虚构写作，作者需使自己所持观点清晰。当真正开始写作时，有时会有大纲的偏移。如前所言，写作与人的内心息息相关，因此，不要害怕偏题或观念的更改，写作会带你发现真实的自己。