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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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

写作有透视法、明暗法,就像绘画或音乐一样。如果你生下来就知道这些,那很好。如果没有,学习他们。然后根据自己的需要重新排列规则。

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.

一个人是否在句子后面,句子的力量有很大的不同。