"So when you write about a place, try to draw the best out of it."每次讀Zinsser的文章都深覺自己讀書太少典徊，今天看完之后把《瓦爾登湖》土铺、《萬物簡史》壕翩、《林中漫步》列入書單刃唐。
PART ONE VOCABULARY
1.desolate
and here— desolate, roughly surfaced, lined with eucalyptus and lemon groves— is Banyan Street.
desolate：a place that is?desolate?is?empty?and looks?sad?because there are no people there無人居住,
e.g.a bleak and desolate landsacpe
其他意思：someone who is desolate feels very sad and?lonely孤獨凄涼
2.distill,adroit
McPhee distills its essence in a paragraph that is adroit both in detail and in metaphor:
distill:to get the?main?ideas or facts from a much larger amount of information提取
distill something into something
adroit：clever?and?skilful, especially in the way you use words and?arguments精明能干黔姜、尤指口齒伶俐
e.g.an adroit negotiator
3.lyrical
Also resist straining for the luminous lyrical phrase to describe the wondrous waterfall.
lyrical：1. beautifully?expressed?in words,?poetry?, or music抒情的 、浪漫的掏婶、熱情奔放的
e.g.lyrical poetry
2.wax lyrical to talk about and?praise sth in a eager way熱情地討論（贊美）
4.groaning,platitude
The other big trap is style. Nowhere else in nonfiction do writers use such syrupy words and groaning platitudes.
platitude:a?statement?that has been made many times before and is not?interesting?or?clever– used to show?disapproval老生常談亏镰，陳詞濫調(diào)
groan：to make a long?deep?sound because you are in?pain,?upset, or?disappointed, or because something is very?enjoyable呻吟，嘆息
e.g.to groan with pain/pleasure套么，
還有抱怨的意思to complain sth等于moan SYNgrumble,whine
e.g.They are always moaning and groaning about how much thay have to do.
idiom：groan under the weight of sth被某物的折磨下喘不過氣
動詞短語
groan with sth：to be full of sth
PART TWO THOUGHTS
People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that somewhere was like.
上次講了如何寫采訪培己，這次講了游記。如何寫游記呢胚泌？從兩方面
1.Distill the important from the immaterial.游記并非事無大小全部寫下省咨，那叫日記。要寫出"Find
those distinctive traits."具有獨特有特色的才能吸引讀者玷室，保證每個細節(jié)都是有意義的
2.風(fēng)格零蓉，切記用情感泛濫，煽情的單詞穷缤，以及老生常談的呻吟敌蜂。
講到游記，我想起高中所學(xué)的陶淵明的《桃花源記》
忽逢桃花林津肛，夾岸數(shù)百步章喉，中無雜樹，芳草鮮美身坐，落英繽紛秸脱。漁人甚異之。復(fù)前行部蛇，欲窮其林摊唇。林盡水源，便得一山搪花，山有小口遏片，仿佛若有光。便舍船撮竿，從口入。初極狹笔呀，才通人幢踏。復(fù)行數(shù)十步，豁然開朗许师。土地平曠房蝉，屋舍儼然僚匆，有良田美池桑竹之屬。阡陌交通搭幻，雞犬相聞咧擂。其中往來種作，男女衣著檀蹋，悉如外人松申。黃發(fā)垂髫，并怡然自樂俯逾。
短短數(shù)句把桃花源描繪出來贸桶，沒有陳詞濫調(diào)。忽然遇到桃花林桌肴，風(fēng)景優(yōu)美吸引的漁人前行皇筛。
還有蘇軾的《前赤壁賦》與《后赤壁賦》，一樣的赤壁景色坠七，詩意卻不同水醋。
清風(fēng)徐來，水波不興彪置。舉酒屬[6](zhǔ)客拄踪，誦明月之詩，歌窈窕(yǎo tiǎo)之章悉稠。少(shǎo）焉宫蛆，月出于東山之上，徘徊于斗(dǒu)牛之間的猛。白露橫江耀盗，水光接天∝宰穑縱一葦之所如叛拷，凌萬頃（qǐng）之茫然。浩浩乎如馮（píng）虛御風(fēng)岂却，而不知其所止忿薇；飄飄乎如遺世獨立，羽化而登仙躏哩。
后賦
江流有聲署浩，斷岸千尺，山高月小扫尺，水落石出筋栋。曾日月之幾何，而江山不可復(fù)識矣正驻！
