It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

  • -- Lascelles Abercrombie 阿伯克龙比激光束

保持听众的注意力比保持读者的注意力更难。

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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

诗歌的优点是能够在一半的时间里说两倍于散文的话,缺点是,如果你没有把全部的注意力放在诗歌上,那么你似乎在两倍的时间里说了一半的话。

Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.

我不认为这是一个值得注意的地方,便继续向西北方走去,想利用这微风的优势。

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

没有冒犯的说教是糟糕的;既不使听者对自己不满意,也不使传道者不满意。

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.

讲道半小时以上,应当自己成为天使,或者有天使为听众。