I. Words and express

1. I could rhapsodize about the old pigskin——more passionately than any farmer——and describe the frenzied bleacherites caught up in the excitement of the auntumn classic.

rhapsodize ?vt. 狂熱地說席噩，寫作狂想詩文 ? ? (tell, narrate, recount, recite, enthuse)

bleacherite ?n. 露天看臺的觀眾

2. The answer is that these words have become even cheaper currency than the coins they were meant to replace.

用要被替換的硬幣來表示一些寫作中用詞的陳舊匣吊，cheaper currency與coins對應，十分有趣

3. They come flooding automatically out of the typewriter of every scribe (sportswriter) in every press box.

come?flooding automatically ?"flooding"用在這里十分形象蛋辈，如水流般不經(jīng)思索地流出

4. A set or an inning doesn't have to be recycled into a stanza or a frame just to avoid redundancy. The cure is worse than the ailment.

inning ?n. （棒球的）一局桶错；輪到顯身手的機會 ? (playing period, play)

stanza n. 演出期航唆；局；場院刁；一節(jié) ? ?(text, matter)

redundancy n.過多糯钙；冗余；累贅

5. No nugget is too trivial or too boring if it can be cemented into that baroque edifice, the lead.

nugget ?n.塊 ?(hunk, lump, things)

edifice ?n.大建筑物 ? (structure, construction)

6. American sport has always been interwoven with social history, and the best writers are men and women who make the connection.

interweave vt.使（與……交織） ? ? (twist, twine, distort)

II. Summary

Writers should know that people read sports articles not only to find out who won, but to read them with enjoyment. So writers should put more fresh imagery instead of the old boring stuff. In the sports writing, we can mention the player's name more often and to keep the details simple.

Humanity make the articles special, which is also the area writers can present own style. What's more, we should care about who we are going to write about. We should not only wirte the famous sporters but the person whom doing something difficult, they have the achivement worth to write. When we prepare our material, ?just as Zinsser mentioned, we should observe closely, interview in depth, listen to old-timers and ponder the changes.

III. Thoughts

其實今天這一章讀的比較痛苦退腥，實在是因為我自己對體育毫無興趣任岸，從來不關(guān)注這類新聞，更不用說讀一些體育名人的傳記或訪談了狡刘。尤其是一開篇享潜，Zinsser的舉例中出現(xiàn)了一堆不認識的詞匯，真是得硬著頭皮才能讀下去嗅蔬。

讀完了之后發(fā)現(xiàn)剑按，Zinsser表明的觀點十分簡單疾就，反復論證的依舊還是寫作的“簡化”和“人性化”，簡練而言之有物吕座，具有人格特色而不至于有失偏頗虐译。畢竟，我們所接觸到的許多體育新聞吴趴，大多是一些標題黨，題目中寫道“XX奪冠”侮攀、“XX敗北”锣枝，文章中除了重復標題內(nèi)容之外，空洞無物兰英，讀完之后除了知道比賽結(jié)果撇叁，對具體的細節(jié)一無所知。但是畦贸，閱讀體育新聞是一種娛樂陨闹，讀者期望的并非只是勝負而已，這就需要作者更為深入的觀察與思考薄坏。作者需要去還原比賽細節(jié)趋厉，讓讀者如身臨其境，或是展現(xiàn)運動員的風采胶坠，讓讀者從文章中了解到一個立體的運動員的形象君账，這樣才是有趣而有意義的寫作。