2021年Unit10TheTransaction课文翻译综合教程三.pdf

精品 pdf资料 欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Unit 10 The Transaction William Zinsser 1 About ten years ago a school in Connecticut held “a day devoted to the arts, ” and I was asked if I would come and talk about writing as a vocation. When I arrived I found that a second speaker had been invited — Dr. Brock (as I ’ ll call him), a surgeon who had recently begun to write and had sold some stories to national magazines. He was going to talk about writing as an avocation. That made us a panel, and we sat down to face a crowd of student newspaper editors, English teachers and parents, all eager to learn the secrets of our glamorous work. 2 Dr. Brock was dressed in a bright red jacket, looking vaguely bohemian, as authors are supposed to look, and the first question went to him. What was it like to be a writer? 3 He said it was tremendous fun. Coming home from an arduous day at the hospital, he would go straight to his yellow pad and write his tensions away. The words just flowed. It was easy. 4 I then said that writing wasn ’t easy and it wasnun. It was hard and lonely, and’t f the words seldom just flowed. 5 Next Dr. Brock was asked if it was important to rewrite. “Absolutely not, ” he said. “Let it all hang out, and whatever form the sentences take will reflect the wr