1.words and expressions
With the bottom of the harbor the past became a major character in Mitchell's work,giving it a tone both?elegiac?and historical
elegiac expressing sadness , especially about the past or people who have died.
對(duì)比elegant 優(yōu)雅的
the mosaicist was finicky about fitting the pieces together until he got them right.
finicky?Insisting?capriciously?on?getting?just?what?one?wants;?difficult?to?please;?fastidious:
a finicky eater. 挑食者
Don't leap up to it with a vapid phrase saying what the man said.\adj
1.?lacking?intelligence,?interest,?or?imagination??愚蠢的;?乏味的;?缺少靈性的:
?vapid?conversation 平淡無(wú)奇的對(duì)話
when you first heard them they sounded so felicitous that you didn't give them a second thought.
felicitous ?(especially?of?words?尤指言辭)
chosen?well;?very?suitable;?giving?a?good?result 貼切的赁炎；恰當(dāng)?shù)陌仓澹煌踪N的
SYN??apt?,?happy?: ? ?a?felicitous?turn?of?phrase ?貼切的措辭
if his language is so tangled that it would embarrass him
?tangle ? ? adjective
1. twisted together in an untidy way ? 纏結(jié)的；混亂的膜宋；紊亂的:
tangled hair / bed clothes ?凌亂的頭發(fā)/床上用品
2. complicated, and not easy to understand 復(fù)雜的受啥；糾纏不清的:
tangled financial affairs ?錯(cuò)綜復(fù)雜的財(cái)務(wù)
the seemingly simple use of a tape recorder isn't simple;infinite stitchery is required.
stitchery means needlework,文中來(lái)形容tape recorder 的使用需要用心與多次重復(fù)做个。
...,like the library, it subsisted on the whims of a capricious public.
subsist?~ (on sth) to manage to stay alive, especially with limited food or money
(尤指靠有限的食物或錢)維持生活,度日:
Old people often subsist on very small incomes. 老人往往靠十分微薄的收入艱難度日。
2. (formal) to exist; to be valid 存在滚局；有效:
The terms of the contract subsist. ?合同條款有效居暖。
whim?noun[C,?U]
a?sudden?wish?to?do?or?have?sth,?especially?when?it?is?sth?unusual?or?unnecessary
心血來(lái)潮；一時(shí)的興致藤肢；突發(fā)的奇想:
He?was?forced?to?pander?to?her?every?whim.
她每次心血來(lái)潮他都不得不依隨她太闺。
We?bought?the?house?on?a?whim.
我們一時(shí)沖動(dòng)買了這所房子。
My?duties?seem?to?change?daily?at?the?whim?of?the?boss.
我的職責(zé)似乎隨著老板的興致每天改變嘁圈。
the?whims?of?fashion ?時(shí)尚的變化多端
She?hires?and?fires?people?at?whim. ?她隨心所欲地雇用人和解雇人省骂。
somewhere ?behind every drab institution are men and women who have a fierce attachment to what they are doing and are rich repositories of lore.
This is a person talking to the reader directly, not through the filter of a writer.
talk directly ?對(duì)比 ?through the filter of a writer.
on the verge of
你不必?fù)?dān)心 怎么講
your worries are over.
2.summary
you are still scribbling sentence A when he zooms into sentence B.You drop Sentence A and pursue him into Sentence B,meanwhile trying to hold the rest of Sentence A in your inner ear and hoping Sentence C will be a dud that you can skip altogether,using the time to catch up.
your inner ear is clogging up with sentences you want to grab ?before they slip away.
這兩句太到位了，完全是我剛開始聽英語(yǔ)聽寫時(shí)候的狀態(tài)最住！動(dòng)詞的運(yùn)用值得學(xué)習(xí)钞澳！
