1.words and expressions

dredge up

the writer continuing to dredge up fragments of his life

憶起;想起；If someone dredges up a piece of information they learned a long time ago, or if they dredge up a distant memory, they manage to remember it. [V P n (not pron)] [Also V n P]

//...an American trying to dredge up some French or German learned in high school...

試圖回想起一些中學時學的法語或德語的美國人

The fragments of memory she dredges up do not fit together.

她想起的那些支離破碎的片段連不上。

2[PHRASAL VERB 短語動詞] 翻出,重提(令人不快的往事)；If someone dredges up a damaging or upsetting fact about your past, they remind you of it or tell other people about it. [V P n (not pron)] [V n P]

I wouldn't want to dredge up the past...

我不想重提往事。

It's the media who keep dredging it up.

是媒體一直在翻舊賬。

debunk

We can write to affirm and to celebrate, or we can write to debunk and to destroy; the choice is ours.

verb

[VN]

? to show that an idea, a belief, etc. is false; to show that sth is not as good as people think it is

? 批判；駁斥；揭穿…的真相:

? His theories have been debunked by recent research.

? 最近的研究揭穿了他的理論的真相。

squeamish

Americans get squeamish at any mention of religion.

adjective

1. easily upset, or made to feel sick by unpleasant sights or situations, especially when the sight of blood is involved

? 易心煩意亂的；易惡心的；神經(jīng)脆弱的

2. not wanting to do sth that might be considered dishonest or immoral

? 誠實謹慎的；正派的

3. the squeamish noun [pl.] people who are squeamish

? 易心煩意亂的人；神經(jīng)脆弱的人:

? This movie is not for the squeamish.

? 這部電影不是給神經(jīng)脆弱的人看的。

2.thoughts

不為寫作而寫作，最重要的還是享受其中的過程。