英语写作终极指南：简洁王道
南京环亚西文现代英语02584721008 What is good writing
什样文章文章？
It depends on what country you’re from We all know what’s considered good writing in our own country We grow up immersed in the cadences and sentence structure of the language we were born into so we think That’s probably what every country considers good writing they just use different words If only I once asked a student from Cairo What kind of language is Arabic She said It’s all adjectives
取决处知道国家文章什样已熟知母语抑扬顿挫句子结构认国家谓文章应该样语言样次问开罗学生：阿拉伯语什样语言？回答说：形容词
Well of course it’s not all adjectives but I knew what she meant it’s decorative it’s ornate it’s intentionally pleasing But all those adjectives and all that
decoration would be the ruin of any journalist trying to write good English No proverbs please
然形容词知道意思：阿拉伯语种注重雕饰阅读快感语言太形容词太雕饰利英文新闻写作千万谚语
Spanish also comes with a heavy load of beautiful baggage that will smother any journalist writing in English
西班牙语样太利英文写作修饰语
English is not as musical as Spanish or Italian or French or as ornamental as Arabic or as vibrant as some of your native languages But I’m hopelessly in love with English because it’s plain and it’s strong It has a huge vocabulary of words that have precise shades of meaning there’s no subject however
technical or complex that can’t be made clear to any reader in good English—if it’s used right Unfortunately there are many ways of using it wrong Those are the damaging habits I want to warn you about today
英语西班牙语意利语者法语样富音律美阿拉伯语样华丽母语样生动鲜活救药热爱英语实力拥海量意义鲜明词汇描述样事物高科技复杂标准英语中读者懂——
果描述准确幸正确英语希家避免错误惯
First a little history The English language is derived from two main sources One is Latin the other is AngloSaxon The words derived from Latin are the enemy—they will strangle and suffocate everything you write The AngloSaxon words will set you free
首先解英语历史英语源拉丁语安格鲁撒克逊语拉丁语单词宿敌——会写作佶屈聱牙安格鲁撒克逊语解开束缚
How do those Latin words do their strangling and suffocating In general they are long pompous nouns that end in ion—like implementation and
maximization and communication (five syllables long)—or that end in
ent—like development and fulfillment Those nouns express a vague concept or an abstract idea not a specific action that we can picture Here’s a typical sentence Prior to the implementation of the financial enhancement That means Before we fixed our money problems
拉丁词语束缚文体呢？般说长华实单词ion结尾implementationmaximizationcommunication（五音节长）者ent结尾developmentfulfillment词语描述模糊抽象概念够明确说明行动典型句子：财政强化计划实施前实说：解决钱问题前
Believe it or not this is the language that people in authority in America
routinely use They think those long Latin words make them sound important It no longer rains in America your TV weatherman will tell that you we’re experiencing a precipitation probability situation
信信美国高层士常语认长长拉丁单词突显身份美国已没雨说天气预报员会提降水概率词
I’m sure all of you newly arrived in America have already been driven crazy trying to figure out the instructions for ordering a cell phone or connecting your computer or applying for a bank loan or a health insurance policy and you assume that those of us who were born here can understand this stuff I assure you that we don’t understand it either
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南京环亚西文现代英语02584721008 What is good writing
什样文章文章？
It depends on what country you’re from We all know what’s considered good writing in our own country We grow up immersed in the cadences and sentence structure of the language we were born into so we think That’s probably what every country considers good writing they just use different words If only I once asked a student from Cairo What kind of language is Arabic She said It’s all adjectives
取决处知道国家文章什样已熟知母语抑扬顿挫句子结构认国家谓文章应该样语言样次问开罗学生：阿拉伯语什样语言？回答说：形容词
Well of course it’s not all adjectives but I knew what she meant it’s decorative it’s ornate it’s intentionally pleasing But all those adjectives and all that
decoration would be the ruin of any journalist trying to write good English No proverbs please
然形容词知道意思：阿拉伯语种注重雕饰阅读快感语言太形容词太雕饰利英文新闻写作千万谚语
Spanish also comes with a heavy load of beautiful baggage that will smother any journalist writing in English
西班牙语样太利英文写作修饰语
English is not as musical as Spanish or Italian or French or as ornamental as Arabic or as vibrant as some of your native languages But I’m hopelessly in love with English because it’s plain and it’s strong It has a huge vocabulary of words that have precise shades of meaning there’s no subject however
technical or complex that can’t be made clear to any reader in good English—if it’s used right Unfortunately there are many ways of using it wrong Those are the damaging habits I want to warn you about today
英语西班牙语意利语者法语样富音律美阿拉伯语样华丽母语样生动鲜活救药热爱英语实力拥海量意义鲜明词汇描述样事物高科技复杂标准英语中读者懂——
果描述准确幸正确英语希家避免错误惯
First a little history The English language is derived from two main sources One is Latin the other is AngloSaxon The words derived from Latin are the enemy—they will strangle and suffocate everything you write The AngloSaxon words will set you free
首先解英语历史英语源拉丁语安格鲁撒克逊语拉丁语单词宿敌——会写作佶屈聱牙安格鲁撒克逊语解开束缚
How do those Latin words do their strangling and suffocating In general they are long pompous nouns that end in ion—like implementation and
maximization and communication (five syllables long)—or that end in
ent—like development and fulfillment Those nouns express a vague concept or an abstract idea not a specific action that we can picture Here’s a typical sentence Prior to the implementation of the financial enhancement That means Before we fixed our money problems
拉丁词语束缚文体呢？般说长华实单词ion结尾implementationmaximizationcommunication（五音节长）者ent结尾developmentfulfillment词语描述模糊抽象概念够明确说明行动典型句子：财政强化计划实施前实说：解决钱问题前
Believe it or not this is the language that people in authority in America
routinely use They think those long Latin words make them sound important It no longer rains in America your TV weatherman will tell that you we’re experiencing a precipitation probability situation
信信美国高层士常语认长长拉丁单词突显身份美国已没雨说天气预报员会提降水概率词
I’m sure all of you newly arrived in America have already been driven crazy trying to figure out the instructions for ordering a cell phone or connecting your computer or applying for a bank loan or a health insurance policy and you assume that those of us who were born here can understand this stuff I assure you that we don’t understand it either
相信刚美国时候订购手机网申请银行贷款购买健康保险流程说明抓狂认美国读懂东西实样懂
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