从1981年至2004年，基斯·科尔克霍恩为《经济学人》工作长达20余年。
IN The 20-odd years he worked for The Economist, from 1981 to 2004, Keith Colquhoun never raised his voice.
想象一下，内布拉斯加州埃尔克霍恩的一位顾客早上订购的全棉床单，下午就到了几英里外的奥马哈购物中心。
Imagine cotton sheets ordered by a customer in Elkhorn, Ne. in the morning, arriving that afternoon from one of its Omaha Supercenters just a few miles away.
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.
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