PART 1
-1.inflate
What father or mother can put together a child's toy from the instructions on the box刻肄？Our national tendency is to inflate and thereby sound important.
v.膨脹览芳，使…充氣
? 吹噓尘喝，吹捧
? 漲價(jià)
（漲價(jià)）eg：inflate prices 漲價(jià)
? ? ? ? Cost is inflating. 成本一直在上漲。
-2.hassle
During the 1960s the president of my university wrote a letter to modify the alumni after a spell of campus unrest.“You are probably aware立由，”he began，“that we have been experiencing very considerable potentially explosive expression of dissatisfaction on issues only partially related.”He meant that the students had been hassling them about different things.
n.麻煩；爭論
eg：It is too much hassle.
這太麻煩了着绊。
v.打擾畦娄；欺凌（一般作被動(dòng)）
Don't hassle me又沾！不要打擾我
I am hassled by some senior officials.
我遭到了公司高層的欺凌。
-3.piece out
They blame themselves——they obviously missd something熙卡，and they go back over the mustifying sentence杖刷，or over the who 了paragraph，piecing it out like an ancient rune驳癌，making guesses movong on.
把…鏈接起來挺勿；使…完整
PART2
But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.Every word that serves no function，every 么long word that could be a short word喂柒，every adverb that carries the same meaning that's already in the verb不瓶，every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing what—these are the thousand and one adulterants that weaken the strength of a sentence.
今天的兩個(gè)章節(jié)我讀了兩遍，第一遍讓我初步熟悉了前兩個(gè)章節(jié)的概況灾杰，第二遍讓我能夠?qū)⒆约旱囊恍┫敕ê臀恼聝?nèi)容相結(jié)合蚊丐。
同樣的，兩次的翻閱也讓我對(duì)這段話有了不同的想法艳吠。
真正的文字愛好者喜歡咬文嚼字麦备，更偏向于對(duì)文字的鉆研，而真正的寫作者，更善于用精簡的文字將復(fù)雜問題簡單陳述凛篙，言簡意賅黍匾。恰恰讓我想起有幾年興起的一些文學(xué)作品里往往出現(xiàn)更多的是咬文嚼字的功夫，把冠冕堂皇的辭藻當(dāng)作寫作功底的展現(xiàn)呛梆，也許就是一種對(duì)寫作不夠深刻的認(rèn)識(shí)吧厂汗。今天讀至此鼠冕，也用這段話警醒自己，好好提高寫作功夫，類比其他的事情亦是如此斤程，應(yīng)真正做到掌握精髓喝滞，而不是流于表面异旧。
我想起白天工作時(shí)收到外國客戶的郵件回復(fù)涵卵，很明顯的與自己帶有中式思維的Chinglish對(duì)比鮮明。以此激勵(lì)自己击困，好好讀完這本書涎劈，好好學(xué)習(xí)寫作！
