这个练习的全部意义就在于，卡罗尔这首诗诗节的结构就是在告诉学生们，要写出一个有意义的句子，他们必须注意其结构。

The point of it all says Fish is that the structure of Carroll's stanza provides all the clues they need to design a sentence that makes sense.

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他挑出一个例子， John Updike对于全垒打的评论—“它在书里的同时仍然在天空中”—并问，写出这样的句子有多难？

He singles out, for instance, John Updike’s remark about a great homerun—“It was in the books while it was still in the sky”—and asks, how hard is it to write a sentence like this?

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菲什有点像一个鉴赏句子的行家，他说写出一个好句子是一个精细的活-----但它是可以通过学习习得的。

Fish is something of a sentence connoisseur, and he says writing a fine sentence is a delicate process — but it's a process that can be learned.

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