讲到幽默感,我平时爱看外国talk show,比如肥伦秀。主持人在不经意间的幽默总能让你会心一笑。但是幽默不是一件容易的事。憨豆先生拍摄了无数让人捧腹大笑的影视剧,但是自身却是有抑郁症、平时少言寡语。
PART ONE THOUGHTS
Humor is not a separate organism that can survive on its own frail metabolism.
Zinsser谈到写幽默是认真的,幽默并不是一堆杂乱的夸张语句。
大多数幽默建立在基本的事实之上。抓住写好的直接的好的英语的技巧。不要研究古怪和轻蔑的观点,多接触点你所知道真实的有趣的。幽默是建立在惊喜之上的,当你觉得惊喜时你的读者也会感受到。
同时还要把握幽默的度。
PART TWO VOCABULARY
1.outlandish
Don’t search for the outlandish and scorn what seems too ordinary;
outlandish:strange or extremely unusual
2.lunacy
Joseph Heller and Stanley Kubrick heightened the truth about war just enough to catch its lunacy,
lunacy:behaviour that is stupid or crazy同义词madness
e.g.a comedy show full of inspired lunacy
3.sermon
But that would have been a sermon, and sermons are the death of humor.
sermon:a talk on a moral or religious subject, usually given by a religious leader during a service
4.frail
Humor is not a separate organism that can survive on its own frail metabolism.
frai:lweak; easily damaged or broken
e.g.Human nature is frail.
metabolism:the chemical processes in living things that change food, etc. into energy and materials for growth新陈代谢