The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
— John Irving  ·  Writing

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define [dɪ'faɪn] 词频3 词根: fin
vt. 规定;使明确;精确地解释;画出…的线条; vi. （给词、短语等）下定义，构成释义;
💡 de加强+fine限制→加强限制→限定；下定义
"Please listen while I define your duties."
在我规定你的职责时,请仔细听好.
近义：appoint, limit, post, set, subtend, bound
yourself [jɔr'sɛlf] 词频1
pron. 你自己;（用以加强语气）亲自;你的正常或健康的情况;
💡 your你的+self自己 → 你自己
"De-stress yourself with a relaxing bath."
舒舒服服洗个澡放松一下。
近义：herself, himself, itself, oneself, themselves, thyself
writer ['raɪtɚ] 词频2
n. 作家;作者;撰写人;写字…的人;
💡 writ=write写+er人 →作家
近义：literatus, author, redactor, columnist, contributor, editor
minute ['mɪnɪt] 词频1 词根: min
n. 分，分钟;瞬间，片刻;备忘录;会议记录; vt. 把…记录在案;为…测定时间;
💡 minut小+e → 一分钟； 微小的，细微的
"The vendors were gazundered at the last minute."
卖主在最后一刻被要求降低房价。
近义：insignificant, little, miniscule, minuscule, petty, pokey
behave [bɪ'hev] 词频2 词根: 占有
vi. 表现;举止端正;自然反应; vt. 使守规矩;
💡 be表示动作+have持有→[一个人]拥有的动作→举动，举止
"I would never have expected her to behave in such an underhand way."
我从未想到她的行为竟如此阴险。
近义：act, deal, demean, deport 反义：underact
write [raɪt] 词频1 词根: wr-
vt.& vi. 写;写信;写作;作曲;
💡 把名字write（写）right（对）
"Write clear definitions in order to avoid ambiguity."
释义要写清楚以免产生歧义。
近义：pen, redact, type, word, scribe, compose

🏷 更多「Writing」名言

"Writing well mean never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'"
— Jef Mallett
"Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing."
— Heather Armstrong
"Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment."
— Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
"See things as they are and write about them. Don鈥檛 waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know."
— Real Live Preacher
"The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think."
— Edwin Schlossberg
"The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood."
— John Burroughs
"It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words."
— Unknown
"I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer."
— Real Live Preacher
"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."
— Charles de Montesquieu
"In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning."
— George Orwell
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