倘若我们要说这个故事，首先要有勇气摒除一切可能引人惊奇的形容词，因为形容词也许只能引起反效果，让叙述者词不达意。

If this story must be written, we must have the courage to eliminate all adjectives that tend to excite wonder: they would achieve the opposite effect, of impoverishing the narrative.

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倘若我们要说这个故事，首先要有勇气摒除一切可能引人惊奇的形容词，因为形容词也许只能引起反效果，让叙述者词不达意。

If this story must be written, we must have the courage to eliminate all adjectives that tend to excite wonder: they would achieve the opposite effect, of impoverishing the narrative.

youdao