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英语短文
Write Your Own Life
书写你的生命
Suppose
someone
gave
you
a
pen
—
a
sealed,
solid-colored
couldn
’
t seehow much ink it
had.
假设有人给了你一枝笔
，
一枝密封的、
纯色的水笔，
里面
有多少墨水你看不到。
It
might
run
dry
after
the
first
few
tentative
words
or last just long enough to create a
masterpiece (or several)
that would
last forever and make a difference in the scheme
of don
’
t know
before you begin.
< br>很可能刚刚试写几字便用干耗尽
;
也可能足以完成一部或
几部杰作，永存于世，使世事为之大变。
Under
the
rules
of
the
game,
you
really
never
have to take a chance!
而这一切你在动笔之前却是一无所知。根据游戏的规则，
你确实永远也
不会知道，只能冒一下险。
Actually, no rule of the game states
you must do
anything. Instead of
picking up and using the pen, you could
leave
it
on
a
shelf
or
in
a
drawer
where
it
will
dry
up,
unused.
而事实上，
也没有规则说你就一定要做些什么。
你大可以
把笔搁在架子上
、放在抽屉里，弃置不用，任墨水蒸发干净。
But if you do decide to use
it, what would you do
with it? How
would you play the game?
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然而，如果你真的决定使用，你会做什么
?
怎么来做这个
游戏
?
Would
you
plan
and
plan
before
you
ever
wrote
a
word?
你会左计划、右计划，然后才慢慢下笔吗
?
Would
your
plans
be
so
extensive
that
you
never
even
got to the writing?
计划会不会太泛太多，根本就达不到写作这一步
?
Or would you
take the pen in hand, plunge right in
and
just
do
it,
struggling
to
keep
up
with
the
twists
and
turns
of the torrents of
words that take you where they take you?
会不会提笔在手，迫不及待地投入
其中，任由手中的笔、
笔下的字带着你在词海中上下翻腾、左突右冲
?
Would
you
write
cautiously
and
carefully,
as
if
the
pen might run dry the
next moment, or would you pretend or
believe
(or
pretend
to
believe)
that
the
pen
will
write
forever
and proceed accord
gly?