新概念英语第四册53-03

not until 直到……才

condensed thinking 浓缩的思想

outlive ( = live longer than) 超出……，活得比……长

out- 超

outnumber 数目超过，比……多； outwit比……聪明

total immersion 完全沉浸其间（作家最高境界）

narcissist 自我陶醉者，自恋狂

narcissus 水仙花

winkling out 发掘出

might as well ( = have reason, is reasonable)

and it is gone; but something was there, and he will not rest till he has captured it. Sometimes the yeast within a writer outlives a book he has written. I have heard of writers who read nothing but their own books, like adolescents they stand before the mirror, and still cannot fathom the exact outline of the vision before them. For the same reason, writers talk interminably about their own books, winkling out hidden meanings, super-imposing new ones,begging response from those around them. Of course a writer doing this is misunderstood: he might as well try to explain