the features of Washington Irving’s writing style.doc

What are the features of Washington Irving’s writing style? 华盛顿欧文 There are quite a few striking（显著的） features which characterize（辨别：成为区别性特征或标记；突出） Irving’s writing.1) Irving avoids moralizing（说教） as much as possible; he wrote to amuse（娱乐，消遣） and entertain, which depends on no small extent from the basic principles of his Puritan(清教徒) forebears（祖先）;2) Then he is good at enveloping（包住） his stories in an atmosphere, the richness of which is often more than compensation（补偿） for the slimness（减肥） of plot;3) His characters are vivid and true so that they tend to linger in the mind of the reader;4) The humor that has built itself into the very texture（结构） of his writings is such that reading him, it is difficult not to smile and occasionally even chuckle（轻笑或自笑）;5) And his finished and musical language and the patent workmanship have been among the points of critical attention for a long time.。