Wonder | 全书总结 & 四月 reading

先补上昨天没写的第八部分知识笔记，因为中午连读代写已经到13.50了，只好赶去实习基地干活@@。

The teachers have been prepping us about this all year long, so all the kids in the grade are excited about it— except for me.

prep 是美式口语，prepare的缩写

“Would I get electrocuted?” “No, but you’d be in real hot water withDaddy because those things cost a fortune!

 在真正的热水里，就是关系很差啦，惹大麻烦啦

Julian ditched the grade trip because he thought the whole nature-retreat thing was, quote unquote, dorky.

1. vt. 在…上掘沟；把…开入沟里；[俚]丢弃

2. vi. 开沟；掘沟

3. n. 沟渠；壕沟

这里用的是俚语的意思，丢弃。

we were back in our spots on the sleeping bags, right smack in front of the screen

1. vt. 拍, 打, 掴

2. n. 掌掴(声); 拍击(声)

3. adv. 直接地, 准确地, 恰好地

4. 猛烈地, 急剧地

  noun  ,  pl   smacks [  count  ]
  1 : a hard slap or hit
   He gave the child a smack on the bottom.
  2 : a loud noise that is made when something hits something else in a forceful way
   The dictionary fell to the floor with a smack.
  3 informal : a loud kiss
   She gave him a smack on the cheek.

  adv  
   informal   : exactly or directly
   She dropped the book smack in the middle of the table.
   The ball hit me smack in the face.

这个词的意思有很多，只看中文的话没有正确释义，看完所有英文解释，员阿里是副词exactly\directly的意思

Broarwood would reimburse us the cost of the hearing aids, he said. They felt bad about what happened.

reimburs

to pay someone an amount of money equal to an amount that person has spent

vt. 偿还；付还

And for the first time, I realized that Jack had a crush on her.

迷恋上了她

It glimmered in their kindness to him, it  glowed in their keenness, it hinted in their caring, indeed it  caressed in their gaze.

glimmer: to shine in a weak, faint, or unsteady way

glow : to shine with low light and heat but usually without flame

hint: to say (something) or give information about (something) in an indirect way

caressed  : to touch (someone or something) in a gentle way

I kind of zoned out a little during some of the other speeches.

to stop paying attention because you are tired, bored, etc.

ok，接下来我想谈谈这本书。

#屁股决定脑袋。

这是个虚构的故事。故事是发生在学校。主人公是个孩子。

那么我们就要 choose kind，因为这不是成年人的世界。

成年人的世界，注定是一个不完美、残酷、充满遗憾的世界。

而小孩子的世界也不会十全十美，主人公就是先天残疾，还好是和平年代，家境富裕，父母心善，周遭温暖，不然他肯定活不过出生当晚。

我们成年就是为了弥补遗憾，为小孩子创造家庭，为他们编造故事，温暖孩子们，也温暖了自己。

这是我对本书的想法，毕竟是个虚幻故事，我们这里不必谈什么历史，政治，科技，道德，房价，工作。我们只需要保护他们就好，等他们长大后，也会明白相互的责任，这就是人类的代际传承吧。

但是虚幻也并不是没有意义的，只要足够精彩，然后我们欣赏就可以。与此同时也塑造了各自的价值观。

在自我基本欲望满足时，当然可以kinder than necessary，这也是因为西方社会比我们东方发达很多，他们也很早就迈入丰衣足食的社会的原因吧。

不管怎么，我还是很喜欢读书的，所以下一个月，就开始读 when breath becomes air 这本吧。

这本书有两个部分，共100多页，分二十天读完吧，一天读十页，一天写笔记。这是本非虚幻书籍，分开来读还好一点。而虚幻的故事书分开读情节不是那么紧凑，但比不读好多了。

这本书里，主人公是位神经学家，2013年他36岁，发现自己已经是肺癌晚期，然后思考了很多，写下了这本书，于2015年3月去世。

What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.

他写这本书根本不可能考虑什么畅销，因为自己的事业也被病情折麽得无法继续。

在goodreads和亚马逊上都有读后感评价，可以看一下，然后在阅读原文里推荐篇Bill Gates写的文章，我也需要细读下。