Q:This chapter mainly describes the Su family's journey to the capital,especially the landscape and legends of the three gorges about the water journey.
Three sentences:
There was no great hurry,and as the women was with them,they took their time,drinking and playing cards while on the boat and enjoying the beautiful scenery on the way.
简单的几句话，描绘了一家人外出游玩闲适的画面
The setting sun shone upon a low plain of rice fields and cottages with chimney smoke,reminding the travelers that they had come back once more to a habitable word.
有炊烟，有人烟
The brothers were just over twenty,and youth sometimes acted as a handicap for a genius.
年龄有时也是成功的绊脚石，确实如此
感悟:读了今天的这一章，其实不怎么感兴趣，主要是对描写景物的文章不感冒，一则词汇有限，二则感觉自己不能把文章描述的美想象出来，实在是觉得读起来很累，虽然作者的文笔很不错，无奈水平有限，欣赏不动啊！要赶快提高自己啦！
Expressions and words:
The bare huts of the cottagers bore witness to their extreme poverty.
bear/give witness to sth: to provide evidence of the truth of sth
This dangerous long stretch is known as the Three gorges.
stretch: an area of land or water ,especial a long one 一片一泓一段
eg:an unspoilt stretch of coastline
If we now emulate his example,we shall be able to show their personal weakness were easily outweighted by the great things that they accomplished.
outweigh:to be greater or more important than sth
eg:The advantages far outweigh the disadvantages
and today the rains and clouds of the Wu Mountains remain a literary euphemism for sexual union.
euphemism:an indirect word or phrase that people often use to refer to sth embarrassing or unpleasant ,sometimes make it more acceptable than it really is.
eg:"Pass away" is a euphemism for "die".
