You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

  • -- Carl Hiaasen 卡尔·希尔森

你可以做最好的研究,提出最有力的学术论点,但如果读者没有读完第三段,你就浪费了你的精力和宝贵的墨水。

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Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of cell lines readily available to scientists must increase.

大多数科学界人士认为,要充分发挥胚胎干细胞研究的潜力,科学家随时可获得的细胞系数量必须增加。

For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.

对他来说,理解我就意味着重新组织他的思维……几乎没有人愿意冒险采取如此激进的行动。

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.

我认为你讲了一个必须讲的故事。你说的是事实。你讲述的故事,读者会感兴趣,应该知道。

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

根据我的形而上学,自由是一种智力主体的自我决定的力量。它意味着思考、选择和权力。

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

我们没有投入足够的科学研究来寻找治疗混蛋的方法。

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

不要害怕犯错,你的读者可能会喜欢。