English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education -- sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

  • -- E. B. White E.B.白

英语的用法有时不仅仅是品味、判断和教育——有时纯粹是运气,就像过马路一样。

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If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.

如果一个人认真对待他的写作,他一定要把它写好。但是他怎么能写得好,直到他学会看他写得不好。他在写作上的进步,以及对糟糕作品的认知,必然会以同样的速度展开。

A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

语言不仅仅是一组词汇或一套语法规则。每一种语言都是心灵的原始森林。

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

传道人靠语言,行善能造就人。

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

写作是把一个人最糟糕的时刻变成金钱。