2007年英语4级

2007年6月

一、

I've been writing for most of my life.

我一辈子大部分时间都在从事写作。

The book Writing Without Teachers introduced me to one distinction and one practice that has helped my writing processes tremendously.

《写作无师自通》这本书想我介绍了一种区别和一种练习。帮助我大大提高了写作水平。

The distinction is between the creative mind and the critical mind.

区别是关于创造性思维和评判性思维之间的区别。

While you need to employ both to get to a finished result, they cannot work in parallel no matter how much we might like to think so.

你需要做的是运用两者帮助你得到一个结果，但是他们不能同时起作用，无论我们多么想要这样做。

Trying to criticize writing on the fly is possibly the single greatest barrier to writing that most of us encounter.

试图匆忙地批判写作内容可能是我们大多数人在写作时遇到的最大障碍。 If you are listening to that 5th grade English teacher correct your grammar while you are trying to capture a fleeting （稍纵即逝的） thought, the thought will die.

如果你按照五年级英语老师教你的，在努力抓紧稍纵即逝的想法的同时纠正你的语法，这个想法肯定会消失。

If you capture the fleeting thought and simply share it with the world in raw form, no one is likely to understand.

如果你抓住了稍纵即逝的想法，但仅以其原始的形式和世界分享，或许没有