标题: 美文--Write Your Own Life [打印本页] 作者: 幽幽草 时间: 2007-4-28 17:15 标题: 美文--Write Your Own Life
Suppose someone gave you a pen – a sealed, solid-colored pen.
假如有人送你一支笔，一支不可拆卸的单色钢笔.
You couldn't see how much ink it had. 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 things. You don‘t know before you begin.
Under the rules of the game, you really never know. You have to take a chance!
在这个游戏规则下，你真的永远不会预知结果。你只能去碰运气！
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.
But if you do decide to use it, what would you do with it? How would you play the game?
但是，如果你决定要用它的话，那幺会用它来做什幺呢？你将怎幺来进行这个游戏呢?
Would you plan and plan before you ever wrote a word? Would your plans be so extensive that you never even got to the writing?
你会不写一个字，老是计划来计划去吗？你会不会由于计划过于宏大而来不及动笔呢?
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?
或者你只是手里拿着笔，一头扎进去写，不停地写，艰难地随着文字汹涌的浪涛而随波逐流？
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 accordingly?
