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 have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

自从去年秋天我开始写一本书以来,我对作家的了解和欣赏越来越多。在那之前,我以为高尔夫作家每天早上起床,打一轮高尔夫,吃午餐,出现在我们最后三个洞,然后去吃晚饭。

Restrictions and writing shouldn't mix. Let your mind be open. Let it be a creative canvas.

限制和写作不能混为一谈。敞开你的心扉。让它成为一幅有创意的画布。