I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.

  • -- William Stafford 威廉·斯塔福德

我甚至没有学习最新的词典中所建立的定义。我不是编字典的。我是一个词典编纂者不得不应付的人。我是语言发展的活生生的证据。

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I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

我就像大多数作家一样,当某些事情发生时,会让人无法抗拒,让人着迷,让人感动,诸如此类。除了写下来,我不知道还能做些什么。

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.

你的稿子既好又新颖。但好的部分不是原创的,原创的部分也不是好的。