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The fine art of putting things off Michael Demarest P3: Yet for all the trouble procrastination may incur, delay can often inspire and revive a creative soul. Procrastination is common ;the world is probably about evenly divided between delayers and do –it- nowers.(p1-p2) Why people procrastinate(p3-p8) Procrastination among writers Jean Kerr Many a writer example Inspiration, imagination Tone : --serious words , --humorous, sarcastic, --exaggeration Fictitious names: Googins Ledge ,Blunts Pond…. words Some places concerned Jean kerr details: Words: Incur: v.招致，引起，蒙受 1, make oneself subject to, bring upon oneself , become liable to 2,receive a specified treatment(abstract) The currency curriculum made the excursionist incur loss of time and money. Incur somebody’s displeasure Incur loss/ damages /debt n. incurrence Anything but: not at all, never On weekends , he was too tired to do anything but lie around or go to the gym. ! Nothing but: only, no other than, nothing else than 你和我在一起好像除了购物就不能做点别的 It seems you and I together can do nothing but shopping. 它只是另一种毒品而已 It is nothing but another drug. Settle down: 1,(船）沉没，沉淀，settle back 2，习惯，适应 3，定居，安定下来 总有一天，我会想安顿下来，成个家 One day I will want to settle down and have a family. 那只船慢慢的沉入海里了 The ship was settling down into the sea. 你习不习惯学校生活？ Did you settle down in the school? settle in 安顿, 适应 settle for 对 ... 感到满足, ...settle up 付清, 还清欠款 settle on 选定, 决定 settle for sth 勉强接受 settle on /upon sth 决定 settle with 和 ... 取得谅解, settle accounts with vt. 结清帐目 settle into 习惯于 ..., 适应 settle down to 专心致志于 settle out 沉淀下来 settle sb.s hash v. 征服某人 settle old scores 算旧帐 No exercise Places:Maine Frenchman Bay?in Maine, part of Down East Hancock County, is the large body of ocean between the northeastern shoreline of Mount Desert Island and the southern coast of Maine extending along the western shoreline of Schoodic Peninsula. It was named in honor of the famous French Explorer Samuel de Champlain who first sailed in an