Reading journal –The Gay Genius
20171226 Chapter 18 Years of Wanderings
My thoughts
还沉浸在前一章苏东坡那种潇洒自在的生活了，今天就到了读到了他颠沛流离生活。纵使才华横溢，名满天下，也拗不过朝廷的一纸诏令。尽管已经上了年纪，想过清闲的日子，也不得不离开自己亲手打造的东坡，拖家带口重新上路。难免让人觉得政治生活索然无味，竟打断了他悠闲的诗人生活。
但也有令人动容的地方。一是苏东坡经常要绕路特意去看望自己的弟弟，兄弟情深令人感慨。二是他交心过朋友，维护过的百姓，都来送他。尽得人心，也算安慰。
更能体现他豁达之处的，要算他和王安石的重逢了。尽管两人政治理念不同，甚至苏东坡也因此被贬入狱，他们还是可以坐下来平心静气地谈家国大事，不愧是大家。
Words and expressions
1.fall through
原文：But all theplans fell through.
释义：(an agreement, plan, sale etc doesn’tcompleted successfully 落空
造句：The students planned to make a
micro-video but it fell thtough.
2. wrangle
原文：In order to carry out my duty I had to wrangle with the farmers and merchants.
释义：v. to argue with somebody angrily for a
long time
搭配：wrangle over/about sth with sb
造句：They are still wrangling over the
ownership of the car.
3.pop out
原文：Another was the monk Tsanliao, who had popped out to again to live with him atHuangchow.
释义1：v. to appear, sometimes unexpectedly
例句：His name keeps popping up in the
newspaper.
释义2： if words pop out, you suddenly say them
without thinking first.
造句：I didn’t mean it. They just popped out.
4. at a/one stroke
原文：At a stroke, the rewards of his years of labor were
wiped out.
释义：with a single sudden action
造句：At one stroke, the country lost two
outstanding generals.
拓展：with/at a stroke of the pen : someone in
authority signs an official document to make a decision with important and
serious results.
