The Literary Virtues / 文字的正反特質

 

The Literary Virtues By Fowler Brothers	文字的正反特質 Fowler兄弟
... since the positive literary virtues are not to be taught by brief quotation, nor otherwise attained than by improving the gifts of nature with wide or careful reading, whereas something may really be done for the negative virtues by mere exhibition of what should be avoided, the examples collected have had to be examples of the bad and not of the good. 【源文摘自H. W. Fowler & F. G. Fowler: The King’s English (Oxford University Press, 1930); 轉引自 思果 《翻譯研究》(桂林：廣西師範大學出版社，2017)】.	......文字的正道美質，不是憑著略引例證就能教會的，而除了靠博覽或細讀來增進天然的禀賦，也別無途徑可以學得；但對其反面的特質，卻只要將應當避免的揭示出來，就或許真能有些作用。既然如此，本書收集的實例就必須是惡例，而非佳作。 （Tr. Allen Zhuang）
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