2024年4月28日发(作者：)

Unit 2 Onwards and upwards

Understanding ideas

We Regret to

"We regret to " These are the words that every writer dreads receiving, but

words every writer knows well. The response from a publisher es back and the writer eagerly opens

and reads it,their hearts sinking when they reach that final sentence. You may have spent years

giving up your weekends and free time to write your life 's work, yet still this is often not enough.

Everyone knows that success rarely happens overnight, but perhaps not many know that a lot of

highly successful writers have previously faced rejection.

inform v._____________ n._____________

the words that every writer that引导_____从句 修饰_____

dread ____________ the response from____________ previously adv. ____________

rejection n. ____________➡ v.拒绝接受；拒绝接纳____________

我们很抱歉地通知您...

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Take for example J.K. Rowling. When she received her first rejection letter, she decided that it

meant she now had something in mon with her favourite writers, and stuck it on her kitchen wall.

Rowling had spent years surviving on little money, spending all her time writing. When she finally

finished her first book, she received ments from publishers along the lines of “too difficult for

children”,“too long”,“Children would not be interested in it”. Nevertheless, she persevered. “I wasn't

going to give up until every single publisher turned me down, but I often feared that would happen, "

she later posted. After a total of twelve rejections, one publisher eventually agreed to print 500

copies of her first book, and as we know, Harry Potter became a global success, with over 400

million books sold and translated into more than seventy different languages.

take for example _____________________ in mon ____________________

spend some time doing sth ____________ along the lines of _____________________

nevertheless adv.__________

persevere v.____________➡ __________________

turn down____________ turn up____________

as we know,... as 引导的是____________从句，翻译为____________

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All too often writers of great works have had to face criticism along with rejection. J.D.

Salinger started writing short stories in high school, but later struggled to get his works published.

“We feel that we don’t know the central character well enough " was the criticism he received on

his manuscript for The Catcher in the Rye. Despite rejections from several publishers, J.D.

Salinger refused to give up. Even when serving in the US Army during the Second World War,

he carried six chapters of The Catcher in the Rye with him and worked on the novel throughout his

war service. When it was eventually published, the book became an immediate bestseller and went

on to sell millions and millions of copies.

criticism n._________➡ criticise v._________➡critical adj.__________➡critic n.____________

start doing sth = start to do sth _________________ get sth done____________

the criticism he received on his manuscript for The Catcher in the Rye.

省略了关系词____________的_____从句，修饰the criticism

struggle to do sth____________ refuse to do sth ____________work on____________

go on to do sth ____________ go on doing sth____________

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