新概念英语第四册53-01

set pen to paper 诉诸笔端， 也可以用 apply pen to paper = write

in that condition of eager discomfort 处于焦急的不安状态.

pass for (= be regarded as) 被当作，被认为

a train/line of thought 思路

pick me up 提神

destination 目的地

journey 旅途（跋山涉水的过程）（艰苦创作的历程）；

而trip 游山玩水的经历

to my (certain) knowledge = as I know

set设置 reset 重新设置(重置)

heard of 听说

skeleton骷髅；提纲 =outline

They have a character, perhaps two, they are in that condition of eager discomfort which passes for inspiration, all admit radical changes of destination once the journey has begun; one, to my certain knowledge, spent nine months on a novel about Kashmir, then reset the whole thing in the Scottish Highlands. I never heard of anyone making a 'skeleton', as we were taught at school. In the breaking and remaking, in the timing, interweaving, beginning afresh,