Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

  • -- William Howard Taft 威廉·霍华德·塔夫脱

不要为了别人能理解你而写作,要为了别人不会误解你而写作。

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It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.

人们总是明白,植物和动物虽然在它们的高级代表中是完全对立的,但在它们的低级和较简单的形式中却非常接近对方。但他们被认为不会融合。

It will be of little avail to the people if the laws are so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

如果法律过于繁冗,无法阅读,或者过于杂乱无章,无法理解,那对人民就没有什么帮助。

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

我正在写一本关于十字军东征的书,枯燥得几乎写不出来。

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

重写和写作是不同的。原创写作是非常困难的。