vocabulary
1. shoddily
①unfair and dishonest
②made or done cheaply or carelessly
adj. 劣質(zhì)的专酗,粗制濫造的 | 不正當?shù)模氨傻?br>
例句: These products are shoddily produced
原文:? ? ? ? ? ? Perhaps a sentence has been so shoddily constructed that the reader could read it in several ways.
2. tenacious
determined to do something and unwilling to stop trying even when the situation becomes difficult
adj. 堅持的;堅韌不拔的最岗;頑強的 | 經(jīng)久不變的窜骄,牢固的
例句:He is regarded as a tenacious and persistent interviewer.
原文:Faced with such obstacles, readers are at first tenacious.
3. elusive
difficult to describe or understand
adj. 〔人或動物〕難找的屁药,不常見到的 | 困難的征峦,難實現(xiàn)的 | 難以表述的于颖;難懂的
例句:For me, the poem has an elusive quality.
原文:Who is this elusive creature, the reader?
4. strip
to remove something that is covering the surface of something else v.剝?nèi)ゴ艋撸?br>
例句: Strip the beds and wash the sheets.
原文:But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.
reflection
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it’s because it is hard.
作為新成員,今天下定決心加入了這個群體森渐,希望用這種激勵方式push自己每天認真按時完成閱讀做入。一直以來 writing is hard for me.希望自己閱讀On Writing Well這本書并且能夠在之后寫作中不斷的進行rewrite,形成clear sentences. Maybe writing is not so hard after rewriting over and over again.