【词汇大师】让语言如此优雅(2/2)

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语言有美丑吗？口语和书面比较，书面会更显优雅。莎翁的巨作就是这样的文字。怎么使自己的英语也能优雅如斯，请听专家怎么说。
TIPS
本篇只听写嘉宾的话，主持人的话不需要听写。
主持人的话：①“Isn't written language different from spoken language? Not to defend these words, but -- "
HINTS
Avi"When they listen to the media, the first thing they're going to hear is what I think of as media-speak. It's a small vocabulary, flat because it's overused; verbs such as spawned, spurred, fueled, triggered, decimated, sparked. They have these little bunches of words that fall into the sentence kind of fully born: 'He is the architect of a plan hammered out in wide-ranging discussions.'"
"I know you're not defending it, but here's what I think: no. The only thing that should be different between speech and writing is that writing can be more elegant, because you can edit it. You go back and look at the sentence. We don't have that luxury when we're speaking. But everything else should be the same.
"For example, Avi, if you were going to tell me a story and you walked into my office, you would probably do a subject-verb-object sentence."