作者把经济状况描绘得一片惨淡。

The writer paints a gloomy picture of the economy.

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你可能认为任何使作者把文字放到页面上的工具都是一种优势。

You might have thought any tool which enables a writer to get words on to the page would be an advantage.

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最后，作者把完成的手稿寄给出版商。

Finally, the author sends the completed manuscript to a publisher.

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So it might be something like that, a tiny little something that one would set down like a couple of elements.

所以创作的支点可能是类似这些的，很小很小的事情，作者会把它们列出来,就像一系列元素一样。

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Now I want to contrast that with what we see from Nabokov in this essay, Good Readers and Good Writers.

现在我要把这和《好读者和好作者》这篇文章中,纳博科夫的观点做下比较。

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In other words, we no longer say, "How does the author exert autonomous will with respect to the subject matter being expressed?"

换言之，我们不会再说，“作者是如何在尊重所要表达的主题的前提下,把独立的意愿加进去的？“

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