WORDS
1.Pop something out of something
What we’re all looking for—what we want to see pop out of your papers—is individuality.
To release something out of something so that it jumps or bursts out, possibly with a popping sound.蹦出粹舵，彈出
惡作劇的時(shí)候跳出來(lái)嚇人
Eg.She popped out the cork with a quick tug.
仿寫：I was waiting at the station and he just popped out.
? ? ? ? The inspiring thoughts just popped out of his excellent work.
2.meager
When students say they have to write what the teacher wants, what they often mean is that they don’t have anything to say—so meager is their after-school existence, bounded largely by television and the mall, two artificial versions of reality.
My father had hoped to move to Chicago because the name sounded so Mexican, but my mother’s meager savings were hardly enough to buy tickets for Colorado.
1.have a small amount of something.可以替換small
Every morning he eats a meager breakfast of toast and coffee.
meager wages
She came to this country with a fairly meager English vocabulary, but she is learning more words every day.
2.not have enough something (on money or food)缺乏的钮孵，不足的。缺錢或缺食物眼滤，syn:deficient
They suffered through several meager years at the beginning of their marriage.
Although she's now rich and famous, she remembers her meager beginnings as a child from a poor family.
Meager beginning
仿寫：They just have meager supply of food.
? ? ? ? So meager is their life experiences.
3.Dip into
I’m often amazed, dipping into my past, to find some forgotten incident clicking into place just when I need it.
To fall temporarily or quickly to a lower level or degree.
Eg.You should bring a jacket because the temperature is going to dip to 60 degrees tonight.
To pursue or investigate something casually.
Eg.Because my area of expertise is modernism, I've only dipped into Victorian literature.文中指潛入探尋自己的過(guò)去
4.upheaval
The memoir writer takes us back to some corner of his or her past that was unusually intense—childhood, for instance—or that was framed by war or some other social upheaval.
[C-NOUN]
Upheaval is a big change that always causes some trouble,confusion and worry.動(dòng)亂巴席，激變
Wherever there is political upheaval, invariably there are refugees...
哪里有政治動(dòng)亂，哪里就一定有難民诅需。
Having a baby will mean the greatest upheaval in your life.
有了孩子意味著你的生活要發(fā)生重大的變化漾唉。
仿寫：Her husband’s death is the catastrophic upheaval in her life.
The discovery of electric is one of the greatest upheaval in our lives.
domestic, economic, emotional, political, social
家庭劇變；經(jīng)濟(jì)變革堰塌；情緒波動(dòng)赵刑；政治動(dòng)蕩；社會(huì)動(dòng)蕩:
[搭配]VERB (cause, provoke)+ UPHEAVAL 導(dǎo)致激變蔫仙；引起激變
go through, undergo 經(jīng)歷劇變
[搭配]PREP.during/in the ~ 在動(dòng)亂期間
5.Beckon
and then everything that beckoned to me from that other hemisphere of my brain beyond the East River would start up from the smell of fresh newsprint and the sight of the globe on the front page
1.use your arm to greet someone 招手
He beckoned to me.
2.appear attractive and inviting 吸引
From the time he was a child, the wilderness beckoned to him.
New adventures were beckoning.
The beckoning smile
仿寫：Though works at laboratory is laborious,the unknown truth always beckons me.
Collocation
Rugged individualist強(qiáng)烈的個(gè)人主義
Wasn’t America the land of the “rugged individualist”?
REFLECTION
[Writing about yourself]
We always make excuses that we don't have the permission to writer about ourselves.That it beacuse,we don't have anything to say about oursleves.But we should be confident to write about ourselves with gusto.If we do so rather than kowtow to the editors or the readers,we will reach the people that you want to write for.But how to write about ourselves?First,we should make sure every material in our memoir is doing usefull work—that is to say—we should focus on the narrow part of our life.Second,the secret of art is detail.A sound or a smell or a song title would be useful as long as it played a shaping role in the portion of our life we have chosen to distill.what's more,the experience as an immigrant might be a good source to write a memoir.
One secret of the art is detail. Any kind of detail will work—a sound or a smell or a song title—as long as it played a shaping role in the portion of your life you have chosen to distill.
細(xì)節(jié)描寫往往最動(dòng)人料睛。zimser在本章中舉了兩個(gè)例子，一個(gè)聞聲，一個(gè)有味恤煞。細(xì)節(jié)描寫非常獨(dú)到屎勘，在閱讀時(shí)，慢慢地拼湊居扒，組成完整的畫面概漱。第一個(gè)例子中，就好像真的聽到了那些稀奇古怪的鐘聲喜喂，在這樣的描寫中瓤摧，又把父親的角色刻畫地很鮮活，在慢慢地回憶中玉吁，一切都變得溫柔又有血肉照弥。所以，細(xì)節(jié)與人的描寫进副，是回憶錄的必殺技这揣。極力要去避免的就是把回憶全盤托出，而沒有側(cè)重影斑，真正有功力的寫作者给赞，往往能夠在回憶中抽絲剝繭，汲取最精華的部分矫户。
