On Writing Well 10-2

Words

1.clog

To turn every "he" into a "he or she," and every "his" into a "his or her", would clog the language.

to block something or become blocked:

例:tourists whose cars clog the roads each summer

clog with

Over many years, the pipes had got clogged up with grease.

今天看到一则新闻里用了clogging

Around 500 tons of the oysters are clogging parts of the Scandinavian coast, threatening native species.

同义:= obstruct, block, congest, hinder, impede, jam

仿:A hot tourist attractions was clogged with tourists during summer vacation.

2.fall into place

Many people assume that professional writers don't need to rewrite; the word just fall into place.

1. if the details of a problem or puzzle fall into place, you suddenly understand how they are connected and you can solve the problem

2. if things fall into place, events happen in a way that is satisfactory for you

例:When you are playing well, everything falls into place.

仿: Everything will fall into place if you follow the plan.

3.animate[ˈænɪˌmeɪt]

Failures of writer to keep the reader notified of changes in time, place and mood, or to vary and animate the style.

to make someone or something more lively, active, or interested

例:Sport was the only thing that really animated him.

仿:Mike's appearance animated the party.

4.infest

The campus are infested with laconic men who have spent a lifetime appraising talent.

VERB 动词遍布于;充斥 If you say that people or things you disapprove of or regard as dangerous are infesting a place, you mean that there are large numbers of them in that place.

例:Crime and drugs are infesting the inner cities.

infested

例:The road further south was infested with bandits.意思和用法都和第一个单词clog很相似

仿:Violence is infesting this school.

Reflection:

今天的内容中印象最深刻的就是关于改写文章了。通常而言,这和考完试检查错误,录完音听自己的回放一样让我讨厌。但每次读一遍自己写的东西都会有需要修改的东西,比如读起来不通顺或是有错别字,不过修改也就仅限于此了。

而今天老先生那篇改写的文章我重复看了好几遍,真是受益颇多。比如,最好把文章定为回忆基调的he remembered放在最前面,让读者能快速进入作者构造的时间段;表达转折或者有新信息提时也尽量提前,给我的感觉是不仅让读者更好的接受新信息,印象也更深刻;还有多用不同的句式让文章更生动。

以上说的是一些具体改写的方法,而改写时最基本的思路就是把自己放在读者的位置去思考:这样写是否能让读者更好的理解,更容易被吸引。所以可以请朋友帮忙改改,或者过几天再回头看看自己写的文章,这时候可能你会发出这样的感慨:这是我写的吗?

Most rewriting consists of reshaping and tightening and refining the raw material you wrote on your first try. Much of it consists of making sure you've given the reader a narrative flow he can follow with the reader's place.

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