words
It’s a disciplined act of writing. The grammar is formal, the words are plain and precise, and the cadences are those of a poet.
Cadences
N-COUNT The cadence of someone's voice is the way their voice gets higher and lower as they speak. (聲音的)抑揚(yáng)頓挫[正式]
He recognized the Polish cadences in her voice.
他聽(tīng)出了她聲音中抑揚(yáng)頓挫的波蘭腔鲤遥。
It’s verbose.
verbose
disapproving adjective
using or containing more words than are necessary
? a verbose explanation/report/speech/style
? He was a notoriously verbose after-dinner speaker.
It’s contemptuous of the English language.
contemptuous
蔑視的;藐視的;鄙視的叠洗；If you are contemptuous of someone or something, you do not like or respect them at all. [usu v-link ADJ]
He was contemptuous of private farmers...
他看不起私營(yíng)農(nóng)場(chǎng)主仗考。
the one without taste will drench us in ripples and other unnecessary ornaments.
drench
to fill or cover completely as if by soaking or precipitation
was drenched in furs and diamonds — Richard Brautigan
one person’s beautiful object is somebody else’s kitsch.
Kitsch
庸俗的藝術(shù)作品菲嘴；迎合低級(jí)趣味的拙劣作品竖般；You can refer to a work of art or an object as kitsch if it is showy and thought by some people to be in bad taste.
//...a hideous ballgown verging on the kitsch...
近乎俗麗的難看的舞會(huì)禮服
summary
In this chapter, Zinsser stresses the importance of keeping and developing your voice. By keeping one voice, the author means that writers should develop their own styles instead of changing their voices according to the subject. Developing one voice needs writers to give enjoyment to readers both in cadences and words and avoid problems like breeziness, condescension and clichés. In fact, how to create enjoyment for readers relies on the taste. Although it changes through time, there are timeless truth surviving in the end. Therefore, writers should choose words that have surprise, strength and precision and sentences that fit the article perfectly.
