Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

  • -- Ezra Pound 以斯拉镑

好的作家是那些保持语言效率的人。也就是说,保持准确,保持清晰。

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Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

艺术家——音乐家、画家、作家、诗人,似乎总是对他们周围发生的事情有最准确的感知,而不是官方版本或大众对当代生活的感知。

I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.

当火车上的蒸汽机过时时,我流了许多眼泪。我想让他们回来,但我意识到柴油车更有效率。

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

我们当中有谁没有感觉到,我们在纸上读到的人物,比站在我们身边的人更真实?

We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently.

我们正在检查每一件事,看我们如何能做得更好、更快、更有效率。

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

异端是对抗人类思想混乱的唯一良药。

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

没有什么比我们的秘密更让我们感到孤独了。