Reading journal –The Gay Genius
20171226 Chapter 18 Years of Wanderings
My thoughts
還沉浸在前一章蘇東坡那種瀟灑自在的生活了涡相，今天就到了讀到了他顛沛流離生活。縱使才華橫溢姆钉，名滿天下惰聂，也拗不過朝廷的一紙?jiān)t令执桌。盡管已經(jīng)上了年紀(jì)家厌，想過清閑的日子扔仓，也不得不離開自己親手打造的東坡褐奥，拖家?guī)Э谥匦律下贰ｋy免讓人覺得政治生活索然無味翘簇，竟打斷了他悠閑的詩人生活撬码。
但也有令人動容的地方。一是蘇東坡經(jīng)常要繞路特意去看望自己的弟弟版保，兄弟情深令人感慨呜笑。二是他交心過朋友，維護(hù)過的百姓彻犁，都來送他叫胁。盡得人心，也算安慰袖裕。
更能體現(xiàn)他豁達(dá)之處的曹抬，要算他和王安石的重逢了。盡管兩人政治理念不同急鳄，甚至蘇東坡也因此被貶入獄，他們還是可以坐下來平心靜氣地談家國大事堰酿，不愧是大家疾宏。
Words and expressions
1.fall through
原文：But all theplans fell through.
釋義：(an agreement, plan, sale etc doesn’tcompleted successfully? 落空
造句：The students planned to make a
micro-video but it fell thtough.
2. wrangle
原文：In order to carry out my duty I had to wrangle with the farmers and merchants.
釋義：v. to argue with somebody angrily for a
long time
搭配：wrangle over/about sth with sb
造句：They are still wrangling over the
ownership of the car.
3.pop out
原文：Another was the monk Tsanliao, who had popped out to again to live with him atHuangchow.
釋義1：v. to appear, sometimes unexpectedly
例句：His name keeps popping up in the
newspaper.
釋義2： if words pop out, you suddenly say them
without thinking first.
造句：I didn’t mean it. They just popped out.
4. at a/one stroke
原文：At a stroke, the rewards of his years of labor were
wiped out.
釋義：with a single sudden action
造句：At one stroke, the country lost two
outstanding generals.
拓展：with/at a stroke of the pen : someone in
authority signs an official document to make a decision with important and
serious results.
