If you want to improve your writing in 30 minutes, read George Orwell’s essay Politics and the English Language. “Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way,” he begins. After analysing some contemporary specimens of terrible prose, he provides his famous six rules for good writing, starting with: “Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.”
如果你想在30分钟里提高你的写作，请读一读乔治•奥威尔(George Orwell)的杂文《政治与英语》(Politics and the English Language)。“大多数用心思考这个问题的人都承认，英语的现状不佳，”这篇文章是这样开头的。在分析了几个当时的糟糕行文案例后，他提出了著名的有关良好写作的6条规则，其中第一条是：“永远不要用书刊中常见的那些暗喻、明喻以及其他各种修辞手法。”
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