中文感悟：

不知道为什么读这一章的时候总有一种“花自飘零水自流”和命运造化弄人的感觉。苏轼的“十年归梦寄西风，此去真为田舍翁”的情怀颇像陶渊明曾写的那篇《归去来兮辞》。奈何造化弄人，命运传回了复官的消息，他多年的辛苦也从此一笔抹杀。

我想起了很久之前看过的一个纪录片《中国市长》，讲的是前大同市长耿彦波的故事，当时的他还没来得及实现兴旺大同的理想就被调任省会太原市市长。那些有关大同的荣辱沉浮，跟那些他一走就停工的工程一样，再也没有回来。我始终记得纪录片里的他在钻进去往太原的车里那一刻泪如如下。他说：“55岁，做官做到我这个年纪已经没什么感觉了，就是想着在一个地方，就要把这个地方建设得面貌一新，在大同的时候，我想着要建设一个焕然一新的大同，到太原了，也会想着在三年之内，太原必定要大不一样……”

可是，除了自己，谁又知道他迈出大同的时候曾割下了什么呢？如他一样，苏轼在此时此刻的内心是怎样一种情绪，恐怕只有他自己才知道了。

字词学习：

...one of them became the best-loved poem describing the essence of this mountain.

essence此处表示the most important quality or feature of something that makes it what it is

in essence本质上

2 a liquid taken from a plant, etc., that contains its smell and taste in a very strong form香精，精油，此处相当于extract

of the essence: necessary and very important

造句：No one can depict human nature so vividly as Shakespeare.

Starvation is at my door.

选这句话是因为觉得这个句式非常好，表示…临近，非常紧迫的一个很形象的说法。

比如可以造句Job-seeking/running out of money is at my door.

...he had his heart in his mouth.

heart这里补充一个熟词生义，表示“红桃牌，红心牌”，比如the queen of hearts红桃皇后

somebody's heart is in their mouth: somebody feels nervous or frightened about something提心吊胆，心提到了嗓子眼儿

set/have your heart on something: to want something very much

take something to heart对某时感到烦恼、耿耿于怀

cross my heart(and hope to die)我发誓（否则不得好死）

eat your heart out: used to compare two things and say that one of them is better（比较两事物）比…还好

wear your heart on your sleeve感情外露、把心事挂在脸上

造句：Every time my brother saw mouse he had his heart in his mouth.