实战口语情景对话 第34期:写作 Writing

 Todd: OK, Jeff, you're a writer. 杰夫，你是一名作家。

Jeff: A little bit. 算是。

Todd: OK. 好的。

Jeff: Hobby! 爱好而已！

Todd: OK. Talk about writing. 好的。

Jeff: I write, I think you, writers write about what they know. So, and I don't know much so....so it's difficult, difficult to be a writer. Now, writers write about what they know so, um, I'm writing, I have a manuscript¹ now about, uh, um, travelling, the people, the people I've come in contact with and, uh, what I thought about then, in the situation we've been in when we've met, sort of thing. But it's difficult, it's not easy, it's not an easy thing to do. At first I did sort of thinking, mm, anyone could do it almost if you put the time into it but now I think it's very difficult, you, you have to be creative, and it's a lot harder than I think it seems, to pick up a finished product, a book, um, a physical book, or to take a book from the library, I think it's, you underestimate² the time that has gone into it. It's a long, lot of effort behind it so..it's fun, I like it, but it's very difficult. But it's good. 我写作，我想作家会写下自己知道的事情。我知道的不多，所以很难成为作家。现在，作家都是写下自己知道的事情，所以我写作写了一个关于旅游的手稿，写下了我认识的人，我的想法，我们相识时的情境等等。但写作很难，它并不简单。首先我就要构思，其实几乎任何人都可以写作，只要他们愿意花时间，但是我认为写作很难，你必须创新，它比想象中更难。选择一本完结的著作，一本书，一本实体书，从图书馆借本书，你往往忽略了这本书背后作者的心血。它的背后是长时间，大量的工作……写作也很有趣，虽然很难，但我很喜欢。

1 manuscript   

n.手稿，原稿，底稿，手写本

参考例句：

• The adaptation of the play for radio manuscript was easy.把剧本改编成广播稿很容易。
• The lost manuscript was found in a repository in France.丢失的手稿在法国的一个存放处被找到了。

2 underestimate   

vt.对...估价过低，低估

参考例句：

• Don't underestimate the role of theory.不要轻视理论的作用。
• I think a lot of people still underestimate him.我觉得很多人仍然低估了他。