It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.

  • -- John Mason Brown 约翰·梅森·布朗

正是在寻求赢得、保持或值得读者感兴趣的艰苦劳动中,才产生了写作的乐趣和痛苦。

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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

把这个论点变成一个具体的形状,一个形象,一些强硬的短语,像一个圆圆的实心的球,他们可以看到,可以处理,可以带回家,那么这个事业就成功了一半。

Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

单词和句子是复习的主题;段落和整篇文章都是先见之明的主题。