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分鐘里提高你的寫作,請讀一讀喬治?奧威爾(George Orwell)的雜文《政治與英語》(Politics and the English Language)?!按蠖鄶涤眯乃伎歼@個問題的人都承認,英語的現狀不佳,”這篇文章是這樣開頭的。在分析了幾個當時的糟糕行文案例后,他提出了著名的有關良好寫作的6條規則,其中第一條是:“永遠不要用書刊中常見的那些暗喻、明喻以及其他各種修辭手法。”