A New English Course
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Unit Four
Unit Four Writing Between the
Lines
I,Related Information
II,Pre-reading questions
III,Text Structure & Analysis
IV,Words & Phrases
Ⅴ, Language points
Related Information
A,Mortimer Jerome Adler
M.J.Adler (1902- ) is an American educator and writer,Born in
New York City and graduated from Columbia University,With Robert
Hutchins,Adler organized in 1946 an adult discussion group program
centered on the,Great Books” of the past and edited Great Books
of the Western World (54 volumes,1952),In 1969 he became director
of planning for the 15th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica,which was
published in 1974,
,
B,John Dewey
John Dewey (1859- 1952) was an American philosopher and
educator,His educational psychology and philosophy and his
criticism of traditional schools have had great influence on
educational development,both in the United States and throughout
the world,His ideas and those of Francis Parker inspired the
movement called Progressive Education
C,Robert Maynard Hutchins
R.M.Hutchins (1899- 1977) was an American educator,famous for his
unconventional theories about higher education,He became the
president of the University of Chicago in 1929,when he was only 30
years old,He remained president until 1945,when he became the
university’s first chancellor,Hutchins was editor in chief of Great Books
of the Western World (54 volumes,1952) and chairman of the board for
the fifteenth edition of Encyclopedia Britannica,which was published in
1974,
D,Mr,Vallee
Hubert Prior Rudy Vallee (1901- 1986) is an American singer of popular
music who enjoyed fame in the 1920’s,
E,Rembrant Harmenszoon van Rijn(1606-1669),
generally considered one of the greatest painters in Western art history,and the
most important Dutch painter of the 17th century,Rembrandt was also a
proficient engraver and made many drawings,His contributions to art came in
a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age (roughly equivalent to the
17th century),in which Dutch culture,science,commerce,world power and
political influence reached their pinnacles,
Works
In all,Rembrandt produced around 600 paintings,300 etchings and 2000
drawings,He was a prolific painter of self-portraits,producing almost a hundred
of them (including some 20 etchings) throughout his long career,Together they
give us a remarkably clear picture of the man,his looks,and— more
importantly— his emotions,as misfortune and sorrow etched wrinkles in his
face,
Among the prominent characteristics of his work are his command of light and
dark,often using stark contrasts,thus drawing the viewer into the painting; his
dramatic and lively scenes,devoid of any rigid formality that contemporary
artists often displayed; and his ostensibly deep-felt compassion for mankind,
irrespective of wealth and age,
His immediate family— his first wife Saskia,his son Titus,and his second wife
Hendrickje— often figured prominently in his paintings,many of which had
mythical,biblical,or historical themes,
? femme au lit (1645)
F,Paradise Lost
a masterpiece of John Milton(1608-1674),
one of the best-known English poets and
prose writers,Paradise Lost (1667) is an
epic poem about the fall man,It is regarded
as the greatest epic in any modern language,
G,Introductory Remarks
Francis Bacon,the famous Renaissance English philosopher and writer,
said,,Studies serve for delight,for ornament,and for ability.” And
studies are mostly done through reading,But,how well do you know
the art of reading? Perhaps,you have already been acquainted with
such reading strategies as skimming and scanning,Perhaps,you have
already known the importance of reading between the lines; but do you
know that you can also increase the efficiency of your reading by
“writing between the lines”? In this essay,M.J,Adler tells us how to
read more actively and efficiently by underlining and making brief
marginal notes,He argues that unless you make a book a part of
yourself,you do not literally own it; and marking up a book while
reading is the best way to make it become yours,And he goes on to tell
us why marking up a book is indispensable to reading with the following
three arguments,1) it will keep our minds alert and active; 2) we may
record our thoughts which are the results of active reading; 3) the
physical act of noting will retain in our memory the thoughts the author
Expressed and the thoughts we have had,
It is true that understanding is a two-way operation and learning doesn't
consist in being a mere empty receptacle,If you are already in the habit
of marking a book,you will feel that you are justified to maintain this
habit—so long as the book is yours; if you have never tried this method
before,why not try it at your earliest opportunity? You will always learn
more and better by frequently questioning,reassessing and arguing
with the author’s ideas,
Pre-reading Questions
Respond the following ten statements by saying,true” or,false”,If it is
false,turn it into a true one,
1) You cannot read most efficiently if you do not,write between the
lines”,
2) As soon as you have bought a book,the book belongs to you,
3) According to the author,books should not be kept as clean and shiny
as the day they were bought,
4) According to the author,you can mark up any books that belong to
yourself,
5) Marking up a book while reading can keep you from dozing off,
6) Books should be read in a state of relaxation,
7) Your reading is active when you have filled the pages of the book
with your notes,
8) Reading a book is somewhat like having a conversation with the
author,
9) Learning means absorbing whatever you are exposed to on the
subject,
10) By,marking a book”,the author only means writing in the margin of
the page,
Text Structure and Analysis
This article can be divided into three parts,
A,(Para 1) The author puts forward his argument directly --- Unless
you write between lines,you are not likely to do the most efficient
kind of reading,
B,(Para 2—10) The author tells us the importance of marking up a
book,
C,(Para 11) Marking a book is an expression of the reader’s
agreements or differences of opinion with the author,This serves
as a convincing ending,
This article has a close structure,vivid and friendly in writing,The
author uses a great deal of rhetorical expressions such as comparison,
figure of speech,classification and so forth which make the whole
article sound lively and cordial,So reader can naturally agree with the
author’s arguments,
Words and Phrases
1,persuade,vt,cause(sb.) to do sth,by reasoning,arguing,etc,
persuade sb,of sth,
persuade sb,that…
eg,How can I persuade you of my sincerity / that I am sincere?
persuade sb,into / out of doing sth,
eg,Can you persuade her out of her foolish plan?
we finally persuaded grandpa into moving to the city,
persuade sb.to do sth,
eg,He was persuaded to stay in bed for three days more,
2,property,(collectively) things owned; possessions
eg,Much of his property was destroyed by the fire,
3,prelude,action,event,etc,that serves as an
introduction
eg,The discussions were a prelude to the treaty,
4,possession,n,possessing; ownership; (pl.) property
eg,He had few possessions,
in one’s (sb’s) possession (= in the possession of sb.)
eg,The house has been in the family’s possession for nearly 90
years,
5,transfer,vt,hand over the possession of; change officially from
one position,etc,to another
eg,That world-famous soccer star has been transferred from a
Spanish
club to an Italian one,
6,absorb,vt.take or suck in (liquids); take in (knowledge,ideas,
etc.)
eg,White surfaces do not absorb much heat or light,
The clever boy absorbed all the knowledge his teacher
could
give him,
7,dig into,read or study for a short time or without much
attention
eg,In my spare time,I like to dip into my favorite authors,
Some books are to be read seriously,others to be dipped
into,
8,restrain,vt.prevent; control; hold back
eg,The little boy couldn’t restrain his curiosity to see what was
in the
box,
9,loosen,v,make or become loose or looser
eg,When Mark was drunk,his tongue was loosened by degrees,
10.continual,a.(usu.of sth.bad or annoying)happening again and
again
eg,He still smokes and drinks,despite the continual warnings of
his
doctor,
We’ ve had continual rain in the past three weeks,
11.preseve,vt.keep safe from harm or danger
eg,Ancient Egyptians knew of means to preserve dead
bodies from decay,
12.bind,vt.tie or fasten with a rope,etc.; fasten together sheets
of ( a book) and enclose within a cover
eg,Bind the prisoner’s hands together,
13.original,a.of or relating to an origin or beginning; being the first
instance or source from which a copy can be made
eg,This is not the original painting,but just a copy of it,
Van Gogh is one of the most original painters of the 19th
century,
14.manufacture,vt,make,produce on a large scale by machinery
eg,Many of the shoes and toys sold in the United States are
manufactured in China,
Paul’s uncle owns a big factory that manufactures farm
machinery,
15.conscious,a.aware; able to feel and think
eg,The old man was conscious to the last,
conscious of / that
eg,They were conscious of being watched,
Are you conscious that you have just made a
terrible mistake?
16.invariably,ad.unchangeable;constantly
eg,All things invariably divide into two,
It’s invariably wet when I take my holidays,
17.sharpen,v.become or make sharp(er)
eg,Debates sharpen one’s wits,
18.disagree with,
eg,Hot climate disagrees with me,
I disagree with you about this,
19.resume,vt.go on after stopping for a time
eg,They resumed their journey after a short rest,
After lunch he resumed reading where he had left off,
20.literally,ad.actually; virtually
eg,The children were literally starving,
21.sequence,n.succession; connected line of events,ideas,etc,
eg,The names are arranged in a alphabetical sequence,
22.read between the lines,find more meaning than the words
appear to express,
eg,My son wrote that he liked his college life very much,but I
could read between the lines that he was homesick,
23.no more…than…,
1) in no greater degree…than…
eg,He is no more a god than we are,
2) only
eg,It is no more than an empty talk,
24.so to speak / say,as one might say; if I may use this
expression,etc,
eg,That’s putting the cart before the horse,so to
speak,
25.get in the way,become a nuisance or hindrance
eg,I’ll take leave as soon as possible so as not to get in the
way,
26.reach for,stretch out one’s hand to grasp; make an effort to
grasp
eg,He reached out for the knife,but it is too faraway,
You must reach for honor by yourself,
27.set down,write down on paper
eg,Please set down your name,
28.pick up,start again after interruption
eg,They pick up the work after the holiday,
They met after five years,and picked up their
friendship as
if there had been no interruption,
29.leave off,stop
eg,It is time to leave off work,
We will start at the point where we left off last time,
30.consist in,lie in; be equivalent to
eg,The happiness of a country consists in the freedom of
its citizens,
31.tie up,connect closely; fasten with rope,etc,
eg,Tie up the two problems and you will understand them
clearly,
32.reduce…to,state in a more concise form; summarize as
eg,At the end of the chapter,the author reduced the whole
complicated argument to several simple statements,
Language Points
1….you have to read,between the lines” to get the most out of
anything,
…while reading you must look for what is implied if you want
to get the greatest benefit from any reading material
2.mark up a book,make symbolic marks in a book for the
purpose of comment,emphasis,etc,
3.If you decide that I am right about the usefulness of marking
books …,
If one conclude that I am correct in saying that it’s useful to
mark books…
4,There are two ways in which one can own a book,The first is the
property right you establish by paying for it,just as you pay for
clothes and furniture,But this act of purchase is only the prelude to
possession,Full ownership comes …,
If one buys a book,he becomes its owner,In other words,he has
established the property right over the book by paying for it,This
is the usual meaning of ownership,The author proposes a second
Meaning,what he calls,full” ownership,Buying a book is not
enough,fully” own it,he argues,One has to read it carefully to
make it fully his,
5,Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of
yourself,
You cannot say that you have the full possession of a book
unless you have digested it,
6,But you do not own the beefsteak in the most
important sense until you consume it and get it into
your blood stream,
But you do not really possess the beefsteak until you
eat it and digest it,
Here, the most important sense” refers to the second
meaning of ownership introduced by the author,the
idea that something becomes completely yours only
when it becomes part of you,whether it’s the food you
eat or the book you read,
7,…the standard sets…,
the collections of books written by those accepted as
authorities on a particular subject
8,This individual owns woodpulp and ink,not books,
This person owns only the materials books are made of,not the
ideas they contain,This person only owns the physical aspect of
books,
9,…but is restrained by a false respect for their physical
appearance,
…but is held back by a false belief that marking a book would
damage their physical appearance
10.I’d no more scribble all over a first edition of,Paradise
Lost” than I’d give my baby a set of crayons and an original
Rembrandt,
I wouldn’t write carelessly on the pages of a first edition of
,Paradise Lost”,just as I wouldn't give my baby a set of
crayons and an original painting by Rembrandt and risk the
danger of having the picture ruined,
11.Its soul,so to speak,is inseparable from its body,
As one might say,the soul of a painting or a statue
cannot be separated from its body,
Here the author means that if you mark up a painting or
a statue,you will destroy its integrated beauty,The soul
of a painting or a statue is the intrinsic value of the piece
of art while its body is the form it takes,
12.If your respect for magnificent binding or printing gets in
the way,…,
If the excellent binding or style of printing of the book
makes you hesitate to put marks on,…
13….the thought -through book,
the book one has completely digested and absorbed in his
mind
14.You can’t let your eyes glide across the lines of a book and
come up with an understanding of what you have read,
…not…and…,if …,(then)…not…
eg,You can’t eat your cake and have it,
You can’t sell the cow and drink the milk,
15.an ordinary piece of light fiction,like,say,
“Gone with the Wind”,
an ordinary novel that is intended primarily
for entertainment,like,for example,“Gone
with the Wind”.,(Let’s) say” can be used
parenthetically to mean,for example”,
eg,I’d like to advise you to learn a second
foreign language,say,German,
16.You don’t absorb the ideas of John Dewey the way you
absorb the crooning of Mr,Vallee,
You do not take in the profound ideas in the books written
by John Dewey in the same manner as you enjoy Mr,
Vallee’s soothing songs,
17.You have to reach for them,
You have to make a great effort to understand the ideas of
John Dewey,
18.That you cannot do while you’re asleep,
The object,that” is put at the beginning of the sentence
for emphasis,
19.He also has the hardest schedule of business activities of
any man I know,
He is also the busiest man I know,
20….drawing what he calls,caviar factories”,
…drawing irregular lines,figures,dots,etc,aimlessly or
absent-mindedly
21….brings words and sentences more sharply before your
mind,
…makes words and sentences appear more clearly before
your mind; gives you a better idea of what the author says
22….sharpen those questions,
…make those questions clear(er) and (more) distinct in
your mind
23….naturally,you’ll have the proper humility as you
approach him,
…as might be expected,you’ll show the right
modesty when yu go up to them to start a conversation,
i.e,when you begin to read their books,
24.Understanding is a two-way operation,
Understanding is a process in which one not only
receives something but also gives something,in which
one may agree or disagree or even argue with the
author or the teacher,
25.learning doesn’t consist in being an empty receptacle,
If you just receive things like an empty container,you
can’t get any real learning; one who passively receives
knowledge cannot expect to really learn anything,
26….to tie up the ideas in a book which,though they may be
separated by many pages,belong together,
…to relate all the ideas in a book which are closely
connected with one another,though they may occur in
different parts of the book
27.Some people reserve them for a fancy bookplate,
Some people reserve them for an ornamental
bookplate,
28.Fancy thinking,philosophical or intellectual thinking;
fanciful or whimsical thinking
29.an integrated structure,
a structure in which the parts are brought into a whole; an
organic whole
30.This outline is,to me,the measure of my understanding of
the work,
To my mind,this outline is a check on how much I have
understood the work,
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Unit Four
Unit Four Writing Between the
Lines
I,Related Information
II,Pre-reading questions
III,Text Structure & Analysis
IV,Words & Phrases
Ⅴ, Language points
Related Information
A,Mortimer Jerome Adler
M.J.Adler (1902- ) is an American educator and writer,Born in
New York City and graduated from Columbia University,With Robert
Hutchins,Adler organized in 1946 an adult discussion group program
centered on the,Great Books” of the past and edited Great Books
of the Western World (54 volumes,1952),In 1969 he became director
of planning for the 15th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica,which was
published in 1974,
,
B,John Dewey
John Dewey (1859- 1952) was an American philosopher and
educator,His educational psychology and philosophy and his
criticism of traditional schools have had great influence on
educational development,both in the United States and throughout
the world,His ideas and those of Francis Parker inspired the
movement called Progressive Education
C,Robert Maynard Hutchins
R.M.Hutchins (1899- 1977) was an American educator,famous for his
unconventional theories about higher education,He became the
president of the University of Chicago in 1929,when he was only 30
years old,He remained president until 1945,when he became the
university’s first chancellor,Hutchins was editor in chief of Great Books
of the Western World (54 volumes,1952) and chairman of the board for
the fifteenth edition of Encyclopedia Britannica,which was published in
1974,
D,Mr,Vallee
Hubert Prior Rudy Vallee (1901- 1986) is an American singer of popular
music who enjoyed fame in the 1920’s,
E,Rembrant Harmenszoon van Rijn(1606-1669),
generally considered one of the greatest painters in Western art history,and the
most important Dutch painter of the 17th century,Rembrandt was also a
proficient engraver and made many drawings,His contributions to art came in
a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age (roughly equivalent to the
17th century),in which Dutch culture,science,commerce,world power and
political influence reached their pinnacles,
Works
In all,Rembrandt produced around 600 paintings,300 etchings and 2000
drawings,He was a prolific painter of self-portraits,producing almost a hundred
of them (including some 20 etchings) throughout his long career,Together they
give us a remarkably clear picture of the man,his looks,and— more
importantly— his emotions,as misfortune and sorrow etched wrinkles in his
face,
Among the prominent characteristics of his work are his command of light and
dark,often using stark contrasts,thus drawing the viewer into the painting; his
dramatic and lively scenes,devoid of any rigid formality that contemporary
artists often displayed; and his ostensibly deep-felt compassion for mankind,
irrespective of wealth and age,
His immediate family— his first wife Saskia,his son Titus,and his second wife
Hendrickje— often figured prominently in his paintings,many of which had
mythical,biblical,or historical themes,
? femme au lit (1645)
F,Paradise Lost
a masterpiece of John Milton(1608-1674),
one of the best-known English poets and
prose writers,Paradise Lost (1667) is an
epic poem about the fall man,It is regarded
as the greatest epic in any modern language,
G,Introductory Remarks
Francis Bacon,the famous Renaissance English philosopher and writer,
said,,Studies serve for delight,for ornament,and for ability.” And
studies are mostly done through reading,But,how well do you know
the art of reading? Perhaps,you have already been acquainted with
such reading strategies as skimming and scanning,Perhaps,you have
already known the importance of reading between the lines; but do you
know that you can also increase the efficiency of your reading by
“writing between the lines”? In this essay,M.J,Adler tells us how to
read more actively and efficiently by underlining and making brief
marginal notes,He argues that unless you make a book a part of
yourself,you do not literally own it; and marking up a book while
reading is the best way to make it become yours,And he goes on to tell
us why marking up a book is indispensable to reading with the following
three arguments,1) it will keep our minds alert and active; 2) we may
record our thoughts which are the results of active reading; 3) the
physical act of noting will retain in our memory the thoughts the author
Expressed and the thoughts we have had,
It is true that understanding is a two-way operation and learning doesn't
consist in being a mere empty receptacle,If you are already in the habit
of marking a book,you will feel that you are justified to maintain this
habit—so long as the book is yours; if you have never tried this method
before,why not try it at your earliest opportunity? You will always learn
more and better by frequently questioning,reassessing and arguing
with the author’s ideas,
Pre-reading Questions
Respond the following ten statements by saying,true” or,false”,If it is
false,turn it into a true one,
1) You cannot read most efficiently if you do not,write between the
lines”,
2) As soon as you have bought a book,the book belongs to you,
3) According to the author,books should not be kept as clean and shiny
as the day they were bought,
4) According to the author,you can mark up any books that belong to
yourself,
5) Marking up a book while reading can keep you from dozing off,
6) Books should be read in a state of relaxation,
7) Your reading is active when you have filled the pages of the book
with your notes,
8) Reading a book is somewhat like having a conversation with the
author,
9) Learning means absorbing whatever you are exposed to on the
subject,
10) By,marking a book”,the author only means writing in the margin of
the page,
Text Structure and Analysis
This article can be divided into three parts,
A,(Para 1) The author puts forward his argument directly --- Unless
you write between lines,you are not likely to do the most efficient
kind of reading,
B,(Para 2—10) The author tells us the importance of marking up a
book,
C,(Para 11) Marking a book is an expression of the reader’s
agreements or differences of opinion with the author,This serves
as a convincing ending,
This article has a close structure,vivid and friendly in writing,The
author uses a great deal of rhetorical expressions such as comparison,
figure of speech,classification and so forth which make the whole
article sound lively and cordial,So reader can naturally agree with the
author’s arguments,
Words and Phrases
1,persuade,vt,cause(sb.) to do sth,by reasoning,arguing,etc,
persuade sb,of sth,
persuade sb,that…
eg,How can I persuade you of my sincerity / that I am sincere?
persuade sb,into / out of doing sth,
eg,Can you persuade her out of her foolish plan?
we finally persuaded grandpa into moving to the city,
persuade sb.to do sth,
eg,He was persuaded to stay in bed for three days more,
2,property,(collectively) things owned; possessions
eg,Much of his property was destroyed by the fire,
3,prelude,action,event,etc,that serves as an
introduction
eg,The discussions were a prelude to the treaty,
4,possession,n,possessing; ownership; (pl.) property
eg,He had few possessions,
in one’s (sb’s) possession (= in the possession of sb.)
eg,The house has been in the family’s possession for nearly 90
years,
5,transfer,vt,hand over the possession of; change officially from
one position,etc,to another
eg,That world-famous soccer star has been transferred from a
Spanish
club to an Italian one,
6,absorb,vt.take or suck in (liquids); take in (knowledge,ideas,
etc.)
eg,White surfaces do not absorb much heat or light,
The clever boy absorbed all the knowledge his teacher
could
give him,
7,dig into,read or study for a short time or without much
attention
eg,In my spare time,I like to dip into my favorite authors,
Some books are to be read seriously,others to be dipped
into,
8,restrain,vt.prevent; control; hold back
eg,The little boy couldn’t restrain his curiosity to see what was
in the
box,
9,loosen,v,make or become loose or looser
eg,When Mark was drunk,his tongue was loosened by degrees,
10.continual,a.(usu.of sth.bad or annoying)happening again and
again
eg,He still smokes and drinks,despite the continual warnings of
his
doctor,
We’ ve had continual rain in the past three weeks,
11.preseve,vt.keep safe from harm or danger
eg,Ancient Egyptians knew of means to preserve dead
bodies from decay,
12.bind,vt.tie or fasten with a rope,etc.; fasten together sheets
of ( a book) and enclose within a cover
eg,Bind the prisoner’s hands together,
13.original,a.of or relating to an origin or beginning; being the first
instance or source from which a copy can be made
eg,This is not the original painting,but just a copy of it,
Van Gogh is one of the most original painters of the 19th
century,
14.manufacture,vt,make,produce on a large scale by machinery
eg,Many of the shoes and toys sold in the United States are
manufactured in China,
Paul’s uncle owns a big factory that manufactures farm
machinery,
15.conscious,a.aware; able to feel and think
eg,The old man was conscious to the last,
conscious of / that
eg,They were conscious of being watched,
Are you conscious that you have just made a
terrible mistake?
16.invariably,ad.unchangeable;constantly
eg,All things invariably divide into two,
It’s invariably wet when I take my holidays,
17.sharpen,v.become or make sharp(er)
eg,Debates sharpen one’s wits,
18.disagree with,
eg,Hot climate disagrees with me,
I disagree with you about this,
19.resume,vt.go on after stopping for a time
eg,They resumed their journey after a short rest,
After lunch he resumed reading where he had left off,
20.literally,ad.actually; virtually
eg,The children were literally starving,
21.sequence,n.succession; connected line of events,ideas,etc,
eg,The names are arranged in a alphabetical sequence,
22.read between the lines,find more meaning than the words
appear to express,
eg,My son wrote that he liked his college life very much,but I
could read between the lines that he was homesick,
23.no more…than…,
1) in no greater degree…than…
eg,He is no more a god than we are,
2) only
eg,It is no more than an empty talk,
24.so to speak / say,as one might say; if I may use this
expression,etc,
eg,That’s putting the cart before the horse,so to
speak,
25.get in the way,become a nuisance or hindrance
eg,I’ll take leave as soon as possible so as not to get in the
way,
26.reach for,stretch out one’s hand to grasp; make an effort to
grasp
eg,He reached out for the knife,but it is too faraway,
You must reach for honor by yourself,
27.set down,write down on paper
eg,Please set down your name,
28.pick up,start again after interruption
eg,They pick up the work after the holiday,
They met after five years,and picked up their
friendship as
if there had been no interruption,
29.leave off,stop
eg,It is time to leave off work,
We will start at the point where we left off last time,
30.consist in,lie in; be equivalent to
eg,The happiness of a country consists in the freedom of
its citizens,
31.tie up,connect closely; fasten with rope,etc,
eg,Tie up the two problems and you will understand them
clearly,
32.reduce…to,state in a more concise form; summarize as
eg,At the end of the chapter,the author reduced the whole
complicated argument to several simple statements,
Language Points
1….you have to read,between the lines” to get the most out of
anything,
…while reading you must look for what is implied if you want
to get the greatest benefit from any reading material
2.mark up a book,make symbolic marks in a book for the
purpose of comment,emphasis,etc,
3.If you decide that I am right about the usefulness of marking
books …,
If one conclude that I am correct in saying that it’s useful to
mark books…
4,There are two ways in which one can own a book,The first is the
property right you establish by paying for it,just as you pay for
clothes and furniture,But this act of purchase is only the prelude to
possession,Full ownership comes …,
If one buys a book,he becomes its owner,In other words,he has
established the property right over the book by paying for it,This
is the usual meaning of ownership,The author proposes a second
Meaning,what he calls,full” ownership,Buying a book is not
enough,fully” own it,he argues,One has to read it carefully to
make it fully his,
5,Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of
yourself,
You cannot say that you have the full possession of a book
unless you have digested it,
6,But you do not own the beefsteak in the most
important sense until you consume it and get it into
your blood stream,
But you do not really possess the beefsteak until you
eat it and digest it,
Here, the most important sense” refers to the second
meaning of ownership introduced by the author,the
idea that something becomes completely yours only
when it becomes part of you,whether it’s the food you
eat or the book you read,
7,…the standard sets…,
the collections of books written by those accepted as
authorities on a particular subject
8,This individual owns woodpulp and ink,not books,
This person owns only the materials books are made of,not the
ideas they contain,This person only owns the physical aspect of
books,
9,…but is restrained by a false respect for their physical
appearance,
…but is held back by a false belief that marking a book would
damage their physical appearance
10.I’d no more scribble all over a first edition of,Paradise
Lost” than I’d give my baby a set of crayons and an original
Rembrandt,
I wouldn’t write carelessly on the pages of a first edition of
,Paradise Lost”,just as I wouldn't give my baby a set of
crayons and an original painting by Rembrandt and risk the
danger of having the picture ruined,
11.Its soul,so to speak,is inseparable from its body,
As one might say,the soul of a painting or a statue
cannot be separated from its body,
Here the author means that if you mark up a painting or
a statue,you will destroy its integrated beauty,The soul
of a painting or a statue is the intrinsic value of the piece
of art while its body is the form it takes,
12.If your respect for magnificent binding or printing gets in
the way,…,
If the excellent binding or style of printing of the book
makes you hesitate to put marks on,…
13….the thought -through book,
the book one has completely digested and absorbed in his
mind
14.You can’t let your eyes glide across the lines of a book and
come up with an understanding of what you have read,
…not…and…,if …,(then)…not…
eg,You can’t eat your cake and have it,
You can’t sell the cow and drink the milk,
15.an ordinary piece of light fiction,like,say,
“Gone with the Wind”,
an ordinary novel that is intended primarily
for entertainment,like,for example,“Gone
with the Wind”.,(Let’s) say” can be used
parenthetically to mean,for example”,
eg,I’d like to advise you to learn a second
foreign language,say,German,
16.You don’t absorb the ideas of John Dewey the way you
absorb the crooning of Mr,Vallee,
You do not take in the profound ideas in the books written
by John Dewey in the same manner as you enjoy Mr,
Vallee’s soothing songs,
17.You have to reach for them,
You have to make a great effort to understand the ideas of
John Dewey,
18.That you cannot do while you’re asleep,
The object,that” is put at the beginning of the sentence
for emphasis,
19.He also has the hardest schedule of business activities of
any man I know,
He is also the busiest man I know,
20….drawing what he calls,caviar factories”,
…drawing irregular lines,figures,dots,etc,aimlessly or
absent-mindedly
21….brings words and sentences more sharply before your
mind,
…makes words and sentences appear more clearly before
your mind; gives you a better idea of what the author says
22….sharpen those questions,
…make those questions clear(er) and (more) distinct in
your mind
23….naturally,you’ll have the proper humility as you
approach him,
…as might be expected,you’ll show the right
modesty when yu go up to them to start a conversation,
i.e,when you begin to read their books,
24.Understanding is a two-way operation,
Understanding is a process in which one not only
receives something but also gives something,in which
one may agree or disagree or even argue with the
author or the teacher,
25.learning doesn’t consist in being an empty receptacle,
If you just receive things like an empty container,you
can’t get any real learning; one who passively receives
knowledge cannot expect to really learn anything,
26….to tie up the ideas in a book which,though they may be
separated by many pages,belong together,
…to relate all the ideas in a book which are closely
connected with one another,though they may occur in
different parts of the book
27.Some people reserve them for a fancy bookplate,
Some people reserve them for an ornamental
bookplate,
28.Fancy thinking,philosophical or intellectual thinking;
fanciful or whimsical thinking
29.an integrated structure,
a structure in which the parts are brought into a whole; an
organic whole
30.This outline is,to me,the measure of my understanding of
the work,
To my mind,this outline is a check on how much I have
understood the work,
