WORDS
1.Laborious
Clutter is the laborious phrase that has pushed out the short word that means the same thing.
If you describe a task or a job laborious,you mean it takes a lot of efforts and times.
Eg. Keeping the garden tidy all year round can be a laborious task.
2.Go belly up
Companies that go belly-up have “a negative cash-flow position.”
To break,to fail to function(malfunction),to die,to fall apart
Eg.Sorry, Mark, I'd love to give you a lift to the airport, but my car has gone belly up on me again.
Eg2.It looks like our co-op might be going belly-up if we aren't granted a license for our communal work premises.
3.Pompous
By using a more pompous phrase in his professional role he not only sounds more important; he blunts the painful edge of truth.
We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.
If you describe someone pompous,you mean they behave seriously because they think they are more important than they really are.
Syn.pretentious
Eg. The service was grand without being pompous.
4.Arsenal/populace
I could go on quoting examples from various fields—every profession has its growing arsenal of jargon to throw dust in the eyes of the populace.
A arsenal is a large collection of weapons,military and so on.
Eg.Russia and the other republics are committed to destroying most of their nuclear arsenals.
Growing arsenal of Sth:a large amount of?
Also see:populace[formal]. The same as people but formal.
throw dust in the eyes of the populace...(好狠...)
5.Economy
Can any thought be expressed with more economy?
Economy is a use of the minimum amount of time,money,effort to achieve something without wasted.
Saving 節(jié)約畸裳，經(jīng)濟(jì)梗掰，以最少的文字達(dá)到最足夠的表達(dá)
Eg. There was mostly silence. I have never known such economy with words.
Eg. improvements in the fuel economy of cars...
Eg.Buying cheap shoes is a false economy.
6.Garnish
This is the problem of writers who set out deliberately to garnish their prose.
(1).A garnish is formed by herbs,chops of fruit or flowers to decorate the cooked food.
Eg. a garnish of chopped raw onion, tomato and fresh coriander...
(2).To garnish something is to decorate the cooked food by using the herbs,chops of fruit or so on.
Eg.She had finished the vegetables and was garnishing the roast.
.? ? Garnish their prose 添油加醋我衬，不必要的裝飾
7.August
You think how august it will look in print. You think of all the people who will read it.
If you describe someone or something August,you think they are dignified or impressive.
【Eg.】the august presence of the monarch.
【記】august(n 八月)(八月是太陽最高欢搜、最威嚴(yán)的時候)
TOUGHTS
Chapter3
要戰(zhàn)勝雜亂無章就像要清楚所以雜草一樣很泊。在很多地方我們都會看到雜亂乙嘀，比如公司會用多余晦澀的語言來掩蓋一些什么東西凳宙。政治家也會使用雜亂的文字來混淆視聽当叭。當(dāng)我們想說我們要說什么的時候茬故，總是會使用沒有意義的語言。所以雜亂無處不在蚁鳖。當(dāng)時作者教了我們一個方法磺芭，就是“bracket”，總的來說就是要警惕這些醉箕，當(dāng)我們在看其他文章的時候留個心眼钾腺，而且在自己寫作的時候也要進(jìn)行修剪〖タ悖總之就是要更精煉放棒，這才是最真誠的表達(dá)。
Chapter4
這一章感觸很深己英，作者先是用造房子和假發(fā)這兩個例子告訴我們间螟，首先要追求準(zhǔn)確精煉的表達(dá)，再形成自己的風(fēng)格。我感覺作者所說的風(fēng)格指的是我們的個性厢破，我們自己的觀點(diǎn)和看法荣瑟。所以他極力推薦我們在寫文章的時候要自信地表達(dá)自己，盡管在很多時候不能用第一人稱摩泪，但是行文中也要融入自己的想法笆焰。這才是真正的風(fēng)格，真正的style 吧加勤。
Writing is an act of ego, and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.
你得承認(rèn)寫作是一個自我的行為仙辟。讓它成為你前行的力量。
寫作也是一種自我成長與歷練啊鳄梅。
On Writing Well Day2
Eric的分享
我每天為大家準(zhǔn)備的分享量不多叠国，希望可以在結(jié)束了一天的工作、學(xué)習(xí)和閱讀后戴尸，作為你睡前的催眠復(fù)習(xí)筆記粟焊。
1\. Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds — the writer is always slightly behind. New varieties sprout overnight, and by noon they are part of American speech.
從“草”來作比喻在中英文里都很常見，尤其是常用蒲公英這種植物孙蒙。例如Procrastination一書中寫道：Procrastination is like a dandelion. You pull it up and think you've got it, but then it turns out the roots are so deep, it just grows back.
> So much for early warnings about the bloated monsters that lie in ambush for the writer trying to put together a clean English sentence.
2\. By using a more **pompous** phrase in his professional role he not only sounds more important.
后面還出現(xiàn)了同義詞gaudy, tinseled项棠。
> You will reach for gaudy similes and tinseled adjectives, as if “style were something you could buy at the style store and drape onto your words in bright decorator colors.
3\.Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, **question-begging **and sheer cloudy vagueness.
question-begging來自beg a question，意思是“認(rèn)為問題已獲解決而繞過問題“挎峦，在這里是故意逃避問題香追，打太極的意思。
4\. You think that it must have the solid weight of authority. You think that its style must dazzle. **No wonder** you tighten.
no wonder表示“難怪”坦胶，這個句型很實(shí)用透典，它的基本形式是(it’s) little/no/small/wonder (that)，it is…that常被省略顿苇。進(jìn)了咱們這個群之后你發(fā)現(xiàn)Eric是個非城椭洌可愛的人，no wonder everyone likes him??.
# 寫作&賞析
1\. Take the adjective “personal,” as in “a personal friend of mine,” “his personal feeling” or “her personal physician.
如果我們來寫這個句子的話纪岁，我們可能寫成take something as an example凑队，這里只用了一個take。我們學(xué)習(xí)到：可以直接用take來舉例幔翰。當(dāng)我們想用for example, for instance的時候漩氨，試一試take這個詞。
Zinsser在第五章中也用到了這個句式遗增，說明這是他的一貫手法：
> Or take a writer who is almost White’s opposite in terms of style.
2\. **There are as many kinds of writer’s block as there are kinds of writers**, and I have no intention of trying to untangle them.
There are as many A as there are B才菠，表示“有多少A，就有多少B“贡定，這個句型簡單易懂，但是我們可能想不到可以這樣寫可都，在口語表達(dá)中可能也不能快速地用它造句缓待。這樣的句子我們多找?guī)讉€例句蚓耽，自己仿寫、造句旋炒，記得會更牢步悠。例如我想到：There are as many kinds of interpretations towards a book as there are readers. 我們想表達(dá)“人與人之間的觀點(diǎn)不同”是不是就可以說There are as many opinions as there are people？
3\. Companies that go belly-up have a negative cash-flow position.
當(dāng)我們說一個詞用得好的時候瘫镇，我總結(jié)原因有三點(diǎn)：1. 準(zhǔn)確 2. 形象 3. 節(jié)奏美鼎兽。這里的belly-up就附和著三點(diǎn)。這里的belly-up可以換成bankrupt铣除，但是它不如belly-up有畫面感谚咬。另外，belly-up和后面的cash-flow節(jié)奏一致尚粘，使得這段話讀起來很舒服择卦。
