Words and expressions
1. I felt very conspicuous leaving the theater with his hand still in my hair, and going home on the bus several people gave us “funnylooks.”?
conspicuous: very easy to notice
仿寫: Most people don't want to be too conspicuous.
2. One column was on the petty squabbling over the shape of the table at the Vietnam peace conference in Paris.?
petty: small and unimportant
aquabble over: to argue about something unimportant
仿寫: They’re always squabbling over the petty things.
3. Onto this element of constant surprise he grafted the dazzling wordplay that was his trademark, a rich and recondite vocabulary, and an erudition based on reading and travel.
recondite: difficult to understand, and not many people know about them
仿寫: Her poems are modishly experimental in style and recondite in subject matter.
4. Keillor has the surest eye for social change and the most inventive mind for making his point obliquely.?
oblique: not expressed in a direct way
仿寫: She gave an oblique look to one side.
Reflection
今天讀的內(nèi)容是寫作中的幽默，作者開篇就提到Humor is the secret weapon of the nonfiction writer. 關(guān)于這個(gè)觀點(diǎn)，我想作為讀者的我們深有感觸，幽默的適當(dāng)運(yùn)用，帶著的讀者是意外之喜，所以，作者又提到了Enjoyment, is what all humorists must convey. 在無限枯燥的理論閱讀中，幽默的文風(fēng)當(dāng)然能讓讀者輕松一笑。至于對(duì)幽默的要求，作者提到了幽默有度。Humor may seem to be an act of gross exaggeration. But, but control is vital to humor.
