Content:

Part I | Principles

1. The Transaction

2. Simplicity

3. Clutter (Writing clean English Sentence)

4. Style (Preserving your identity)

5. The audience (Who am I writing for)

6. Words (The only tools you’ve got)

7. Usage (What is good usage)

Part II | Methods

8. Unity (Anchor of good writing)

9. The lead and the ending

10. Bits and pieces

Part II | Forms

11. Nonfiction as Literature

12. Writing About People: The Interview

13. Writing About Places: The travel article

14. Writing About Yourself: The Memoir

15. Science and Technology

16. Business Writing:Writing in Your Job

17. Sports

18. Writing About the Arts Critics and Columnists

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Words and Expressions:

1. It’s also too facile an approach if you want to write serious criticism, for the only epigrams that have survived are cruel ones.

.N-COUNT 詼諧短詩(shī);警句;雋語(yǔ)

An epigram is a short saying or poem which expresses an idea in a very clever and amusing way.

2. Therefore if you want to be a critic, steep yourself in the literature of the medium you hope to make your specialty.

VERB 浸泡(食物)

To steep food in a liquid means to put the food in the liquid for some time so that the food gets flavour from the liquid.

【語(yǔ)法信息】：V n

【語(yǔ)法信息】：V-ed

It's a drink made by steeping pineapple rind in water.

這是用菠蘿皮泡在水里做的飲料。

...green beans steeped in olive oil.

在橄欖油里浸泡過(guò)的青豆

3. A music critic should know not only his Bach and Palestrina ...but his Schoenberg and Ives and Philip Glass—the theoreticians and mavericks and experimenters.

N-COUNT (團(tuán)體中)自行其是的人锌畸，特立獨(dú)行的人,標(biāo)新立異的人

If you describe someone as a maverick, you mean that they are unconventional and independent, and do not think or behave in the same way as other people.

【搭配模式】：ADJ n

He was too much of a maverick ever to hold high office.

他太特立獨(dú)行果正，永遠(yuǎn)不可能做高官趣钱。

Maverickis also an adjective.

...a maverick group of scientists, who oppose the prevailing medical opinion on the disease...

就治療這種疾病與醫(yī)學(xué)界普遍觀點(diǎn)相左的一群標(biāo)新立異的科學(xué)家

Her independence and maverick behaviour precluded any chance of promotion.

她的獨(dú)立精神和自行其是斷送了一切升遷的機(jī)會(huì)况芒。

4. There are few spectator sports as enjoyable as a good academic brawl.

1.N-COUNT 打架符隙；斗毆

A brawl is a rough or violent fight.

He had been in a drunken street brawl.

他參與了一場(chǎng)酒后街頭斗毆舅巷。

2.V-RECIP 相互動(dòng)詞 打架面氓；斗毆

If someone brawls, they fight in a very rough or violent way.

【語(yǔ)法信息】：V withn

【語(yǔ)法信息】：pl-n V

He was suspended for a year from University afterbrawling with police over a speeding ticket...

他為了一張超速罰單與警察廝打兵钮，被大學(xué)勒令停學(xué)1年蛆橡。

Two gangs of youths brawled on the dance floor of the ferry.

兩伙青年在渡輪的舞池里打起來(lái)了。

brawling

The brawling between the England fans and locals last night went on for several hours.

昨晚掘譬，英格蘭球迷和當(dāng)?shù)厍蛎缘臎_突持續(xù)了好幾個(gè)小時(shí)泰演。

5. The editor of the page was a huge and choleric man

1.ADJ-GRADED 脾氣火爆的;暴躁易怒的

A choleric person gets angry very easily. You can also use choleric to describe a person who is very angry.

【語(yǔ)域標(biāo)簽】：FORMAL 正式

...his choleric disposition...

他的火爆性子

He was affable at one moment,choleric the next.

他一會(huì)兒還和藹可親，可一轉(zhuǎn)眼就火冒三丈屁药。

Thoughts:

評(píng)論類文章粥血，吸引人的兩點(diǎn)，一是要有自己的觀點(diǎn)酿箭，二是要有說(shuō)服力复亏。具有說(shuō)服力的一種有效方法，是具體化缭嫡、實(shí)例化缔御，用細(xì)節(jié)來(lái)證明自己的觀點(diǎn)。

我記得我開始看梁實(shí)秋的書妇蛀，是源自一個(gè)朋友耕突。她說(shuō)爆肚并不好吃……因?yàn)樗?jīng)在北京冬天的深夜看了梁實(shí)秋的《雅舍談吃》，看的饑腸轆轆评架，然后第二天一大早特意爬起來(lái)去吃爆肚眷茁。

爆肚好不好吃我不知道，但梁實(shí)秋倒是多了我這樣一個(gè)忠實(shí)讀者纵诞。