"If you can begin to understand an accomplishment in detail and be able to talk about what makes it work you will begin to know why your sentences work or don't work" Fish explains.

“如果你开始从细节上去理解一个句子，并且能够说出每个部分是如何起作用的，那么你就可以知道自己的句子是好是坏以及其原因了。”菲什解释说。

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"If you can begin to understand an accomplishment in detail, and be able to talk about what makes it work, you will begin to know why your sentences work or don't work," Fish explains.

“如果你开始从细节上去理解一个句子，并且能够说出每个部分是如何起作用的，那么你就可以知道自己的句子是好是坏以及其原因了。”菲什解释说。

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Keep and ear out for complex and disjointed sentences with unnecessary detail - it's a good sign they're telling porkies.

请密切注意复杂、杂乱又带有不必要细节的句子——这是他们在说谎的迹象。

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Irving picked up his obsession with detail from Charles Dickens, the celebrated Victorian author whose vivid tales, filled with circuitous sentences, were wordy enough to inspire a false legend that he was paid by the word.

NPR: Intersections: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens