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    November 28

    终于出太阳了!

    现在的心情就像拿到offer一样激动,hoho
    November 07

    好书一本

    我从来不推荐书。读书是太私人化的一件事情。我喜欢的可能是另一个人不屑一顾的,就如同我常常纳闷为什么郭敬明还有如此之多的拥护者一样(特别是当我在莱福士见到真人之后。天!我喜欢的作家至少要像鲁迅一样帅。)
     
    不过这本书不一样。因为这只是一本工具书。无关品味,无关偏好。如果我推荐普鲁斯特的《追忆似水年华》,大概有人会说我作。(那是一本好书,虽然我读完前三本就没再读下去了。读第一本的时候很惊艳,读第二本的时候很惊叹,读第三本的时候很惊悚,因为想到了后面还有四本。也许等我退休以后会接着把以后的章节看完,顺便追忆自己的年华。)如果我推荐天下霸唱的《鬼吹灯》,可能有人要大惊小怪我没欣赏水平。(我真的推荐你去读一读,在天涯上有连载,虽然我自己已经很久没跟了,因为网页长的打不开。不过我打算等出了盗版就去买一本每晚睡觉前看一章。)还好,我现在要说的是这本书。
     
    《美国大学英语写作》,名字很土。英文名字更土,College Writing Skills with Reading, 没有一个单词不是小学五年级就学过的。John Langan编,外研社出,定价57.90。相对于它的厚度以及徐静蕾的小博客都能卖到20块一本的现状,这个价钱并不贵。
     
    本书强调实用。所以你可以把它等同于菜谱,化妆指南,减肥手册。这样你一开始看的时候就不会有心理障碍。作者认为college writing是一个可操控的过程,一个通过看完这本书就可以得到提升的过程。从谋篇布局到遣词造句都手把手教你。
     
    很好看,不枯燥。以前我睡前看鬼故事和侦探小说。现在我睡前读一章它。书中有大量美国学生的作文和名家名作。目前为止我印象最深的一个句子是“So long as murder remains illegal, these people of the world are safe from me.”超级使用句型,可惜我们的英语课没有教。我也不够胆把它的中文版本写到我的作文里去。还有一篇文章讲作者如何放火烧山吓人取乐。小时候我有很多作文书,读得津津有味,并且经常把书中的事例插到自己的作文里去,幻想自己在车上给人让座(我从不让)或者老师如何不辞辛劳帮我补课(老师确实帮我补课,要收钱,外带我帮他们倒垃圾和偶尔打扫卫生)。这也是本作文书。我不会把里面的东西写到自己的essay里去,但是我读得比以前更加津津有味。
     
    最重要的是(这本书说了,essay的逻辑顺序之一种就是把最重要的放到最后),今天写essay的时候我突然发现我会写了。不再像写GRE AW那么一脸苦大仇深的瞪着电脑屏幕妄图从上面找到topic和logic(我的电脑屏幕上面是美女香水广告),也不再写一句话中文英文的绕半天(曾经我以为自己可以做翻译)。我会写了。当然写得不像写中文那么好。但是我可以像写中文那么流畅的写下去,而且有信心我写的是好的。我也会看了。我不会再把Times和New Yorker上的文章混在一起。我想我还可以分辨出Times和News week的区别。
     
    就是这本书。我甚至没有做上面的练习。只是像看小说一样的看了下去。所以如果你恰好无聊要练习写英文,不妨买来一读。当然,它只是教你写essay,不是教你如何成为Shakespear. 如果有成为Shakespear的志向,你可能最好不要读任何书,否则都将是对你才能的亵渎。
    November 02

    titles

    There’s nothing in the world is more disgusting than writing titles. Why I must write a title for my blog? I just want to write down some words, some sentences, and some things that may not make sense. It’s not an essay or an exam papers. Then why I need titles? I write these stuffs just for myself. Confucius was smart though, he used the first two characters of every article as its title. It is a pity I cannot follow this pattern. Yeah, that prove the fact that the distance between Confucius and me is just like zenith and nadir. If I do what he did, then all my titles would be “today” or “nowadays” or such stupid words like that. 
     
    This recalls my experience when I was a pupil. My teacher required us to keep a journal and I, a docile girl--like a docile sheep, haha--in that time (The teacher’s words is decree!), wrote essays everyday though I have not got any interesting topic. One day, I found all my journals were beginning with “today”. It’s boring, I thought. So I just deleted all that “today”. But unfortunately, all the articles then started with “I”. Ok, I discarded that “I”, and found nothing left in my dairies.
     
    I think this story show I am really not good at writing blog. All the things I write here is babbles, senseless words, and drivels. Why I still keep writing? Well, this is just demonstrate again that how…I am.