Summary?
Chapter 13 (Writing About Places——The Travel Article): Travel writing needs fresh words and images in style and useful and significant details in substance.
Words and Expressions
The dismal truth is that it's very hard.?
1 dismal adj.?憂郁的;陰沉的油猫，慘淡的邑时，凄涼的
eg:You can't occupy yourself with dismal thoughts all the time.
Who can visit the Tower of London without musing on the wives of Henry VIII.
2 muse vi. 沉思受裹，冥想
eg: People like musing on lives when their families and friends are gone.
But that is ground already covered by multitudes of people.
3 multitudes n. 大量， 眾多
eg: The Bund is covered by multitudes of people on National Day.
Nowhere else in nonfiction do writers use such syrupy words and groaning platitudes.
4 platitude n. 老生常談 （cliche）
eg: The pointless meeting is full of platitudes.
It should generate a whole constellation of ideas about how men and women work and play, raise their children, worship their gods, live and die.
5 constellation n. 一系列（相關(guān)的事物和想法）
eg: Teachers raised a constellation of ideas about improving students' English ability.
Instead I went to the custodians of these sites and asked:...?
6 custodian n. 看守人朦肘，管理員?
Thoughts
He enjoyed his trip so much that he wants to tell us about it —— and "all" is what we don't want to hear.We only want to hear some.
Your main task as a travel writer is to find the central idea of the place you're dealing with.
? 這兩段內(nèi)容充边，作者想要指出在寫(xiě)游記的時(shí)候呢撞，我們要突出一個(gè)值得讀者去看的重點(diǎn)溪厘。這和之前提到的 one subject 契合。這讓我想到，我旅行前也會(huì)上網(wǎng)去看一些游記多搀，經(jīng)常會(huì)讀到一些標(biāo)題如 “XX最好吃街頭美食”歧蕉，“XX必去打卡景點(diǎn)”。康铭。惯退。。从藤。催跪。但是讀到后面會(huì)說(shuō)到某樣食物一般般，不值得推薦或者這個(gè)景點(diǎn)還不如國(guó)內(nèi)三線城市的公園諸如此類(lèi)的話夷野。那我覺(jué)得這樣的內(nèi)容應(yīng)該放到標(biāo)題為“XX最難吃食物”和“最坑爹景點(diǎn)”懊蒸。另外，Zinsser在這章也提到悯搔，太多人寫(xiě)大峽谷有多壯觀骑丸，壯觀是個(gè)大家都知道的事實(shí)，那這樣的游記讀者沒(méi)有興趣讀鳖孤，讀者會(huì)對(duì)有人從大峽谷上掉下去這類(lèi)的游記更感興趣者娱。同樣的抡笼，如果我們寫(xiě)游記苏揣，寫(xiě)到不為人所知的內(nèi)容一定是更吸引人的。著名的景點(diǎn)推姻，很多人就算沒(méi)去過(guò)也讀到過(guò)或媒體上看到過(guò)的“好”平匈，“壯美”，“嘆為觀止”藏古。也許這的確是我們旅行時(shí)的感受增炭，我們被這景象所震撼到，但是一定會(huì)震撼讀者嗎拧晕？所以我們要嘗試從不同的角度去發(fā)現(xiàn)一些重要的又與眾不同的點(diǎn)來(lái)進(jìn)行描述隙姿。
