中文感悟:
今日读书中让我感受较深的一点是古代文人对于“歌伎”的态度和行为。如作者所言，严谨如范仲淹、司马光等辈均为她们写过情诗。但是，我并不想从一个批评者或者是粉丝的角度来批判抑或羞于谈论这一现象。这一现象只是让我想起了最近读的一些书中，书的内容与作者生活大相径庭的现象。我个人觉得这是个很有意思的问题。比如著名童书作者查尔斯·舒尔茨（Charles M. Schulz）画的《花生》漫画是那么幽默富有感情，但是他本人却是一个悲剧的集合体…曾写出《人间喜剧》的巴尔扎克却是一个不折不扣的生活作风上的“混蛋”…我无意贬低谁或是褒奖谁，我想说的是，我们对任何一个人物的认识不应该流于僵化和大众。虽然说一千人眼中就会有一千个哈姆雷特，但是无论每个人看法如何，我们首先要做的不要让自己的看法纯属是偏见的集合。有时候在创作者身上看似矛盾的东西并不一定都是负面或者羞于公之于众的，我并不是再为私生活如巴尔扎克福楼拜这样的人物进行开脱，他们的私生活如何，对我而言，唯一的价值在于能否帮助我更好地理解他们的作品中所蕴含的情绪，是否能够让我从不同的角度对他们的人生对人性对自己有所了解。所以，为歌伎写诗这件事情，说大也不大，说小也不小，关键在于你如何看，而你的看法，在某种程度上决定了你最终可以对这个人物有多少分的了解。
字词学习：
Apparently the woman was a loose character and had married three times, having three sons by three different husbands——quite a record in these days.
loose: having or involving an attitude to sexual relationships that people consider to be immoral. 例如a young man of loose morals.
此外loose做形容词还可表示 not in any player's control无球员控制的，例如a loose ball
loose作动词还有一个意思是to fire bullets, arrows, etc. 用法是loose something off(at somebody or something)
loose作名词有一个固定表达是on the loose: having escaped from somewhere; free做这个意思讲的时候相当于at large
造句：She was considered a loose character.
...and the state courtesans were at their beck and call.
at somebody's beck and call: always ready to obey somebody's orders随时待命
造句：His boss expected Tom to at his beck and call.
Whether it casts a slur on his character or not, however, is a matter of opinion.
slur: an unfair remark about somebody or something that may damage other people's opinion of them诽谤、诋毁，cast a slur on somebody=insult
slur还可以指音乐上的“连奏线，连唱线”
除此之外，slur作动词还可表示1 含糊不清地说话（通常由于醉酒或疲劳），用法为slur something/ +speech
2 动词“诽谤，侮辱” slur somebody/something
造句：People in the market started shouting slurs.
