I.Words and express
1. Both are unnecessary fears to lug through life, and in this chapter I'd like to help you ease whichever one is yours.
lug? carry with difficulty? ? ? ? ?
synonymous: transport, carry, clog up
2. Science, demystified, is just another nonfiction subject.
demystify? vt. 使非神秘化? ?
synonymous: clarify, clear up, elucidate
3. Who doesn't possess some cluster of vivid images that can be recalled from an inconceivably early life?
some cluster of vivid images? "一些栩栩如生的畫面"
inconceivably? adv.不可思議地? ? ? ? synonymous:? impossible, out of the question, unimaginable
4. Just because you're dealing with a scholarly discipline that's usually reported in a style of dry pedantry is no reason why you shouldn't write in good fresh English.
pedantry? an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning
dry pedantry 和 fresh English 對應(yīng)，干巴巴的賣弄學(xué)問和生動(dòng)的英文寥闪。
5. Loren Eiseley was a naturalist who refuse to be cowed by nature as he passed on to us.
cow? v.subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats).
6. Speaking of compression, that paragraph is a gem of tight linear writing.
“若說簡明扼要踢星，那一段可謂是緊湊連貫的文章中的精華所在恨樟∈洞啵”
II. Summary
Many people are afraid of writing about science and technology, because they think it's hard to express them clearly. However, Zinsser thought there was nothing difficult, if you could think clearly, you can write clearly.
Science and technology writing is about fact and deduction. The writer should use an upside-down pyramid frame in their article, make the reader easy to accept and continue. Moreover, writer also should put the human element in it. Writing something about themselves or someone else. Then use their enthusiasm and passionateness make the writing vividly and fresh.
Literature is not only the poem, essay and novel we know, the scientific nonfiction is also a kind of literature. When we write it, we shoud make it humanity and interesting.
III. Thoughts
Zinsser在開篇提到并淋，人們對科技寫作有種畏難情緒混稽，可謂是一語中的召夹。就我自己而言欺抗，在一開始看到第十五章的標(biāo)題售碳，就覺得這一章一定很枯燥乏味，十分難懂佩迟。但事實(shí)上团滥，并非如此。在我們一貫的印象中报强，科技寫作就好像是考研閱讀中那些可怕的文章灸姊，那些高新技術(shù)的東西與我們相距甚遠(yuǎn)，讀起來都覺得困難秉溉，更不用說動(dòng)筆去寫了力惯，這恰恰是我們的誤解。
Zinsser講述的科技寫作召嘶，更像是文采斐然父晶、生動(dòng)有趣的科普。首先弄跌，要遵從科技寫作本身的事實(shí)準(zhǔn)確與邏輯嚴(yán)密甲喝；其次，在謀篇布局上铛只，層層展開埠胖，引人入勝；最后淳玩，不要把科技寫作當(dāng)做冷冰冰的文獻(xiàn)寫作或是透著酸腐氣的掉書袋直撤，投入自己的興趣與熱忱，文章自然就變得生動(dòng)有趣了蜕着。Zinsser在舉例時(shí)提到了《寂靜的春天》谋竖，的確，這不僅僅是非常棒的科普，還是一篇美文蓖乘，同樣的著作锤悄，還有《量子物理史話》，將復(fù)雜的量子力學(xué)娓娓道來驱敲，精彩之極铁蹈。
