Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

  • -- Helen Simonson 海伦·西蒙森

只有当我们在规则中进行选择时,我们才会发现我们在这个过程中已经把一些珍贵的东西放在了一边。

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Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

除了一些简单的原则外,我认为英语散文的声音和节奏很重要,作家和读者都不应该太相信规则,而应该相信自己的耳朵。

We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.

如果我们不喜欢结果,我们就不能改变规则。