中式英语之鉴 Chapter 1

Merry-Go-Round

Reader: 敖维瑞

Reading time: 4h

Reading Task: I. Unnecessary Nouns and Verbs

Summary of the content: Common redundant nouns and verbs written by Chinese learners. And mentioned that economy is the 1st . We need cut them off when we slip into edit part.

Evaluation: Useful. Precisely explained what we have ignored for a long time. English words have their own metaphor meaning, and they don’t like characters. Characters can add meaning and metaphor by just adding extra Characters, but English words must choose carefully to achieve that and you can’t add words in Chinese way, which is obviously redundant.

Reflection: My vocabulary limited, need to learn more and smarter. Understand the meaning behind a single word. I can improve my writing and reading through this way, instructed by the economy rule.