《全球英语写作经典:风格的要素(全新双色中英对照版)》一书完全尊重原书风格,主要包含了18条英语写作的用法和写作的一些基本原则或者在写作时需要注意的重要规则。中文版与英文版二书合一,一边学习英文写作,一边增进阅读能力,更超值!不只是写作指南,更是具跨界影响力的风格经典!用欧美人士的不朽经典学习最地道的英文写作,没读过《全球英语写作经典:风格的要素(全新双色中英对照版)》,别说你懂得英文写作!
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William Strunk Jr. (1 July 1869 – 26 September 1946) was a professor of English at Cornell University and author of the The Elements of Style (1918), which, after being revised and enlarged by his former student E. B. White, became a highly influential guide to English usage during the late 20th century.
Strunk was born and reared in Cincinnati, Ohio, the eldest of four surviving children of William and Ella Garretson Strunk.[1] He earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Cincinnati in 1890 and a PhD at Cornell University in 1896. He spent the academic year 1898–99 at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France, where he studied morphology and philology.[2]
Strunk first taught mathematics at Rose Polytechnical Institute in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1890–91.[3] He then taught English at Cornell for 46 years, disdaining specialization and becoming expert in both classical and non-English literature.[4] In 1922 he published English Metres, a study of poetic metrical form, and he compiled critical editions of Cynewulf's Juliana, several works of Dryden, James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, and several Shakespearean plays.[5] Strunk was also active in a gathering known as the Manuscript Club, an "informal Saturday-night gathering of students and professors interested in writing," where he met "a sensitive and deeply thoughtful young man named Elwyn Brooks White."[6]
In 1935–36, Strunk enjoyed serving as the literary consultant for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Romeo and Juliet (1936). In the studio he was known as "the professor," in part because with his three-piece suit and wire-rim spectacles, he "looked as though he'd been delivered to the set from MGM's casting department."[7]
In 1918, Strunk privately published The Elements of Style for the use of his Cornell students, who gave it its nickname, "the little book." Strunk intended the guide "to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention...on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.” In 1935, Strunk and Edward A. Tenney revised and published the guide as The Elements and Practice of Composition (1935).
In his New Yorker column of July 27, 1957, E. B. White praised the "little book" as a "forty-three-page summation of the case for cleanliness, accuracy, and brevity in the use of English."[8] Macmillan and Company then commissioned White to revise The Elements of Style for republication. White's expansion and modernization of the 1935 edition sold more than two million copies. Since 1959, total sales of three editions in four decades has exceeded ten million copies.[9]
In 1900, Strunk married Olivia Emilie Locke, with whom he had three children, including the noted musicologist, Oliver Strunk.[10] William Strunk retired from Cornell in 1937. In 1945 he suffered a mental breakdown, diagnosed as "senile psychosis," and died less than a year later at the Hudson River Psychiatric Institute in Poughkeepsie, New York.[11] Strunk's Cornell obituary noted that his friends and former students remembered "his kindness, his helpfulness as a teacher and colleague, [and] his boyish lack of envy and guile."[12]
看这本书是因为英语e书房管理员写了强烈推荐,加之张五常和董桥的两篇推荐文章,才知道这本小册子在英文写作界的知名度。 先是花了两天的时间听完这本书的音频。一开始很吃力,因为之前就没有好好学过语法,对于标点符号的单词完全不认识。都是一边听一篇用灵格斯...
评分http://blog.caing.com/article.php?itemid=9537&preview=888 The Elements of Style,风格的要素,非常小的一本书,几十页,是最有影响力的英文写作指南。我读的是2000年第四版,边读边记,摘记如下: 对与错 段落,不是句子,是文章组合的单元。段落首句要么点...
评分From my perspective, no book in shorter sapce, with fewer words, will help any writer more than this persistent little volume which the work remains a nonpareil: direct, correct, and delightful. Truth be told, i was a student that needed help in my punct...
评分剑桥英语语法主编溥哲夫(Geoffrey Pullum) 痛骂Strunk和White的ELEMENTS OF STYLE. Pullum在句法理论领域的学术水平完全超越怀疑。看完之后,我觉得他的批评很有道理。小白书的两位主编确实是不太懂英语语法的小白,我为我的盲从感到羞愧。 50 YEARS OF STUPID GRAMMAR ADVIC...
这本书简直是设计领域的“圣经”!我是在一个设计论坛上偶然看到有人推荐的,当时我正在为如何让我的作品更具辨识度而苦恼。翻开第一页,作者那种对“美”的理解和拆解,让我有种醍醐灌顶的感觉。他不是简单地罗列那些陈词滥调的原则,而是深入挖掘了形式背后的心理学和文化根源。比如,他对“比例”的论述,不仅仅停留在黄金分割这种老生常谈上,而是结合了不同历史时期和地域的审美偏好进行了细致的对比分析,读起来像是在听一位资深艺术史学家娓娓道来,充满了智慧的火花。尤其让我印象深刻的是其中关于“肌理”的章节,作者竟然能用如此生动的语言去描述那些触觉上的感受,让我仿佛真的能触摸到粗粝的石材和光滑的丝绸,这种细腻的观察力和表达能力,真的不是一般的设计理论书籍能达到的高度。我感觉自己好像完成了一次深度的自我梳理,对过去那些模糊的设计直觉都有了清晰的理论支撑。读完后,我立刻回去审视了我手头正在进行的一个项目,一些困扰我许久的问题,忽然间就找到了方向。这本书更像是一把钥匙,打开了通往更高层次设计思维的大门,强推给所有对“看起来不错”背后的“为什么”感到好奇的创作者。
评分这本书给我最深切的感受,是它对“传统”的尊重与创新之间的微妙平衡。我一直觉得,许多年轻设计师容易陷入两个极端:要么是盲目地复古,做出毫无新意的模仿;要么是过度地追求“颠覆”,结果却流于肤浅的猎奇。而本书作者的观点非常老道:真正的创新,往往是建立在对历史和既有范式的深刻理解之上的。他用了大量篇幅去解析那些被视为经典的设计运动,不是简单地赞美它们的结果,而是剖析它们诞生时的社会背景、技术限制以及设计师们在特定约束下所做的巧妙妥协。这让我明白,风格的演变是一个螺旋上升的过程,每一次风格的“突破”,都是对前人经验的继承和超越。这种宏大的历史观,极大地拓展了我的设计视野,让我不再局限于眼前的流行趋势。现在我看待设计史,就像在看一场连续剧,每一幕都有其内在的逻辑和必然性。这本书教会我,要创造出具有持久生命力的风格,就必须先成为一个有学识的“破坏者”——在彻底理解规则之后,才有资格去打破它。
评分我是在一个需要撰写大量项目提案的阶段读完这本书的,坦白说,当时我压力非常大,总感觉自己的表达方式不够有力,缺乏一种内在的说服力。这本书的价值在于,它提供了一种“结构化表达美感”的方法论。作者将“风格”这个抽象的概念,拆解成了可以量化、可以操作的若干个基础元素,这对于我这种习惯于逻辑思考的人来说,简直是福音。他不仅探讨了静态设计中的平衡与统一,还深入分析了动态叙事,比如在时间序列中如何保持风格的连贯性。特别是关于“意图的清晰度”那部分,作者反复强调,任何风格的建立都必须服务于一个明确的沟通目标,如果元素堆砌只是为了“好看”而好看,那终究是空中楼阁。这种务实又不失深度的观点,让我学会了在追求美学表达的同时,时刻警惕设计的功利性本质。读完之后,我写提案时思路变得异常清晰,因为我知道如何用最精准的视觉语言去支撑我的核心论点。这本书的实用性,远超出了传统意义上的设计指导。
评分这本书的装帧和排版简直就是教科书级别的示范!作为一名痴迷于印刷和版式多年的老读者,我对实体书的质感要求极高。这本《风格的要素》在这一点上做得无可挑剔。纸张的选择厚实而富有韧性,文字的字号和行距经过了精心的调校,即便是大段的理论阐述,阅读起来也毫无压力,非常“舒服”。更值得称赞的是,作者在引用和展示那些经典设计案例时,使用的图片质量极高,色彩还原度惊人,这对于理解他对“色彩理论”的论述至关重要。我记得其中一章专门讲了“韵律感”的营造,书中通过不同大小、不同密度的图文块的排列组合,直观地展示了节奏是如何在视觉流中被创造和打破的,这种“所见即所得”的教学方式,比单纯的文字描述有效太多了。它本身就是一本活生生的关于“形式美感”的实践案例,你拿着它,就已经在接受一场潜移默化的美学训练。对于那些对书籍设计本身也感兴趣的读者来说,这本书的物理形态本身就包含了它所倡导的设计精髓。
评分说实话,我一开始对这种听起来有点“学院派”的书是抱有疑虑的,毕竟现在网络上充斥着太多快餐式的设计教程,教你三步做出一个“爆款”Logo。但这本书的深度和广度,彻底颠覆了我的看法。它不是教你“做什么”,而是教你“如何思考”。我尤其欣赏作者在探讨“对比”时所采用的辩证思维。他没有简单地说“强对比好”或“弱对比妙”,而是通过大量的案例分析,展示了在不同的情境下,微妙的张力是如何构建出叙事性的。比如,他对比了早期现代主义的极简与后现代主义的拼贴,解释了为什么在特定的社会环境下,那种强烈的视觉冲突会成为主流表达方式。阅读过程需要一定的专注度,因为它涉及一些设计哲学和社会学的基础概念,但只要你愿意沉下心来,收获绝对是巨大的。对我个人而言,它帮助我建立了一个更稳固的批判性思维框架,现在我看任何设计作品,不再满足于表面的视觉效果,而是会下意识地去探究其背后的构成逻辑和潜在的文化暗示。这本书与其说是设计工具书,不如说是一本提升认知维度的哲学读本。
评分明白英文中,黑粗斜体代表书名称。句子的格式,要怎么不累赘。在当当里包月看完的。
评分跳着看.
评分其实就是文书写作的规范,甚至标点符号都有一堆规则.如果没有大量的阅读基础,书本里的要点你只会觉得陌生.我就是其中之一.
评分貌似是翻译1918年第一版的。
评分翻译和版本大概不好……以及需要老师教~~~
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