引文在来源、拼写和标点方面都准确吗?
他会说,“我把你的稿子做了一两处处理”,意思是,稿子已经改成最简洁、最准确、标点最少的科尔克霍恩风格。
“I’ve just taken one or two liberties with your copy, ” he would say, meaning that it had been completely rewritten into the best simple, accurate, sparely punctuated Colquhoun prose.
娴熟的写作能力不仅仅来自于对语法和标点符号的准确使用,更要依靠对写作对象的全面理解,并能用文字将其表达出来。
Writing well doesn’t only require accurate grammar and punctuation, but wholly understanding something and being able to communicate that through words.
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