我们让杰森写一篇关于他家乡的短文。
如果我可以选择的话，我会写一篇论文，而不是画一幅画。
Given my druthers I'd rather write an essay than draw a picture.
我们要将一篇文章写到最好，并尽可能地接近理想状态。
We do our absolute best with a piece of writing, and come as close as we can to the ideal.
乔尔·斯坦写了一篇关于千禧一代的长文章，他对我们的潜力相当乐观。
Joel Stein wrote an extensive piece on Millennials and he remains rather optimistic about our potential.
干细胞治疗领域的好消息来自本周发表在《柳叶刀》杂志上的一篇论文。
The good news for the field of stem-cell therapy comes from a paper published in this week's Lancet.
那是一个下午的晚些时候，我正在为一篇我感觉不错的文章做最后的润色。
It was late in the afternoon, and I was putting the final touch on a piece of writing that I was feeling pretty good about.
收集原始资料，即阅读书籍和做笔记，很像写一篇普通文章前的头脑风暴过程。
Collecting raw material, which is reading books and taking notes, is very much like the process of brainstorming at the prewriting stage of an ordinary essay.
赶快找到你最喜欢的书，看看你能不能找到它的主题！一篇文章的主题是什么？
Get your favorite book quickly and see if you can find the theme out! What is the theme of a text?
在成长型思维课堂上，学生们阅读并讨论了一篇题为《你可以让你的大脑成长》的文章。
In the growth mind-set classes, students read and discussed an article entitled "You Can Grow Your Brain".
“它们很漂亮，而且提供了一些美国手机所没有的特殊功能。”CNN的一篇文章曾经这样评价中国智能手机。
"They are beautiful and offer something special that American phones don't have," an article on CNN once said about Chinese smartphones.
当然，他并不会以同样的速度阅读每一篇材料，但无论是阅读报纸还是物理文本中的一章，他的阅读速度都是相对较快的。
Of course, he does not read every piece of material at the same rate, but whether he is reading a newspaper or a chapter in a physics text, his reading rate is relatively fast.
当优秀的学生上交一篇文章时，他们梦想着老师能把它原封不动地还给他们，除了在最后一页的空白处加了一个词：“完美无瑕”。
When good students turn in an essay, they dream of their instructor returning it to them in exactly the same condition, save for a single word added in the margin of the final page: "Flawless."
玛蒂尔达曾经写过一篇关于童话对罗尔德·达尔写作产生的影响的文章，这篇文章让我对他古怪而又令人愉快的话语有了新的认识。
Matilda once wrote a paper on the influence of fairy tales on Roald Dahl's writing and it gave me a new appreciation for his strange and delightful words.
那是一篇经过仔细推敲写成的文章。
这是一篇优秀的调查研究报道。
The article was an excellent piece of investigative journalism.
这卷书的姊妹篇即将问世。
我给莉莉读了一篇故事，然后给她盖好被子。
无论如何，我的母亲和她的红笔向我展示了一篇看似完美无瑕的文章可能有多么严重的瑕疵。
In any event, my mother and her red pen showed me how deeply flawed a flawless essay could be.
它不是一篇政治论文，就像那些仅仅通过书名来评判书籍的人所想的那样，但它是有史以来关于教育方面最优秀、最美丽的著作。
It is not a political treatise, as those who merely judge books by their title think, but it is the finest, most beautiful work on education ever written.
几个月前，我写了一篇名为《人生不止是要快乐》的文章，是关于一项心理学研究的，该研究深入探讨了快乐对人们的真正意义。
A few months ago, I wrote a piece called "There's More to Life Than Being Happy" about a psychology study that dug into what happiness really means to people.
我起先打算写一篇短篇小说，但很快就写成了长篇小说。
I started out to write a short story, but it soon developed into a novel.
我们高兴地看到《星期日泰晤士报》刊登了关于乳腺癌的一篇长长的特写。
We are delighted to see the Sunday Times running a long feature on breast cancer.
我们高兴地看到《星期日泰晤士报》刊登了关于乳腺癌的一篇长长的特写。
We are delighted to see the Sunday Times running a long feature on breast cancer.
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