首先是因为天津家教作者的文笔在线。
作者 Atul Gawande 是哈佛医学院教授、白宫最年轻的健康政策顾问,同时他也是《纽约客》等杂志的医学专栏作家,40 岁时获得麦克阿瑟天才奖。他可能英文世界中最会写作的外科医生,文笔准确又动人,在介绍部分他就用到了这些高质量的词汇:
demise,abate,countenance,funtionary,primitive,broach,debilitating,emaciated,heroic measures,adament,recurring,lament,finitude,addle,sap,inexorability
许多句子都写得直白干脆,节奏特别好,易读也易学。比如:
- Even as our bones and teeth soften, the rest of our body hardens. 紧接着就出来了句 As the heart muscle thickens, muscle elsewhere thins.
- It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty. Every day was a roll of dice.
- Life is choices, and they天津家教are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.
- We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being. And well-being is about the reasons one wishes to be alive. Those reasons matter not just at the end of life, or when debility comes, but all along the way.(这段话很简单,读起来觉得很顺,这种顺就来自它的长短句节奏、句与句之间的连贯性)。
内容上,衰老和死亡是我们都会面对、甚至不敢想的话题,这一期的阅读主题便伦理和哲学。另外,读读自己陌生的话题也是训练阅读习惯和理解能力的必经之路。
我们都有年长的亲人,都难免自己和看着亲人生老病死。当我们无法独立生活时该怎么办?如何接受衰老和死亡?如何让生活有意义?作者以印度和美国文化背景,结合自身经历的故事和我一起探讨这些话题。
比如他说我们医疗条件天津家教的进步,会让我们觉得自己的自然衰老是件不正常、不好意思的事: