琼·迪丹有一种非凡的能力，将沉闷的情绪排除在自己的散文之外，不带感情地思考。

Ms Didion has a remarkable ability to consider her own feelings without letting her prose turn soggy with emotion.

youdao

琼•迪丹与众不同之处正在于此。

This is what makes Joan Didion unique.

youdao

“今天是她的结婚周年纪念日，”琼·迪丹在开头写到，唤起了2003年夏季女儿在曼哈顿岛婚礼上的场景。

"Today would be her wedding anniversary," she writes at the beginning, and then evokes the scene of her daughter's summer wedding in Manhattan in 2003.

youdao