Vocabulary
bewilder
As for the students, anyone might think we left them bewildered.
看單詞以為是be wilder，其實(shí)是to confuse someone，使迷惑误甚，難住瞧预。
bewildering 使人迷惑的 confusing and difficult to understand
bewilderment n.混亂 confusion
bewilder vs. confused
是同義詞，但不能完全替換榨惰，例如
I confused you with your sister.
confuse X and Y 表示分不清X和Y拜英，means I couldn't tell the difference, or thought one was the other.
I bewildered you with your sister.
bewilder X with Y 表示由于Y讓X困惑，means I used your sister to cause you confusion.
https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/3952/confused-vs-bewildered
glimpse
But in fact we gave them a broader glimpse of the writing process than if only one of us had talked.
n. 一瞥琅催，一見居凶；短暫的感受或領(lǐng)會(huì) a quick idea or understanding of what something is like。
catch/have a fleeting glimpse of 快速的一瞥
glimpse也可以作動(dòng)詞藤抡，表示瞥見 看一看
spell
During the 1960s the president of my university wrote a letter to mollify the alumni after a spell of campus unrest
以前只知道“拼寫”這個(gè)動(dòng)詞意思侠碧，spell還可以表示名詞“（持續(xù)的）一段時(shí)間”，是可數(shù)的缠黍。
持續(xù)某一個(gè)事件或情況：
I lived in London for a spell. 我在倫敦住過一陣子
She had a brief spell as captain of the team. 她曾經(jīng)當(dāng)過一段時(shí)間的球隊(duì)隊(duì)長
持續(xù)某一天氣：
a spell of dry weather 一段天氣干燥的日子
The weather broadcast is for dry, sunny spells.天氣預(yù)報(bào)說是持續(xù)干燥的晴天
There’s no sin so grave
He may get away with it for a paragraph or two, but soon the reader will be lost, and there’s no sin so grave, for the reader will not easily be lured back.
表示anything can be forgiven弄兜。"so grave" means "too serious". So there is no sin bad enough, or serious enough, that it can't be made right or forgiven.
https://hinative.com/en-US/questions/3657958
Summary
Nobody told all the new computer writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they’re writing fluently doesn’t mean they’re writing well.
writing fluently不等于writing well，達(dá)到fluent已經(jīng)很難了，writing well是更難的替饿。
ch.1 The Transaction 由Zinsser和Dr.Brock的分歧開始语泽，兩個(gè)人在是情緒是否會(huì)影響寫作和是否使用symbolism意見不一，但是都對(duì)對(duì)方的想法很有興趣视卢。由此也引出了Zinsser對(duì)寫作方法的態(tài)度：
There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.
能幫助你表達(dá)自己的方法就是好方法踱卵，每個(gè)人的情況不一樣，不要給自己設(shè)限据过。有了對(duì)的方法惋砂，還要進(jìn)一步的write naturally，讓自己的寫作變得鮮活蝶俱，充滿humanity和warmth班利。
ch.2 Simplicity 講了為什么要精簡寫作語言，以及如何cut the clutter
The answer is to clear our heads of clutter. Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can’t exist without the other.
要有意識(shí)的保持頭腦清晰榨呆，寫作的時(shí)候才能更有調(diào)理罗标，但這并不容易，第二章結(jié)尾附上了部分手稿积蜻，這已經(jīng)是整理過4-5遍的內(nèi)容了闯割，仍然有很多地方需要精簡，以達(dá)到作者tigher, stronger, and more precise的要求竿拆。
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident.
起初我以為這會(huì)是一本非常academic的寫作指導(dǎo)宙拉，沒想到還是比較有趣并且易讀，下面摘抄了一些非常生動(dòng)的語句：
Bloggers are saturating the globe.
keep pace with the train of thought
hacking through the verbiage
