大學(xué)英語專八寫作篇之書寫你的生命

首先看一下下面的例文吧。

大學(xué)英語專八寫作篇之書寫你的生命例文：

Suppose someone gave you a pen — a sealed, solid-colored pen.

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!

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?

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?

Would you write to please just yourself? Or others? Or yourself by writing for others?

Would your strokes be tremblingly timid or brilliantly bold? Fancy with a flourish or plain?

Would you even write? Once you have the pen, no rule says you have to write. Would you sketch? Scribble? Doodle or draw?

Would you stay in or on the lines, or see no lines at all, even if they were there? Or are they? There's a lot to think about here, isn't there?

Now, suppose someone gave you a life…

譯文：假設(shè)有人給了你一枝筆，一枝密封的、純色的水筆，

里面有多少墨水你看不到。

很可能剛剛試寫幾字便用干耗盡；也可能足以完成一部或幾部杰作，永存于世，使世事為之大變。

而事實上，也沒有規(guī)則說你就一定要做些什么。你大可以把筆擱在架子上、放在抽屜里，棄置不用，任墨水蒸發(fā)干凈。

然而，如果你真的決定使用，你會做什么？怎么來做這個游戲？

你會左計劃、右計劃，然后才慢慢下筆嗎？

計劃會不會太泛太多，根本就達不到寫作這一步？

你確實會去寫嗎？你一旦有了這枝筆，卻也沒有規(guī)則說你一定就要去寫。你會粗粗寫來？潦潦草草？信手涂鴉？還是認真描畫？

你會寫在線里還是寫在線上，或者對紙上的線格根本就視而不見？真的有什么線格嗎？此時此刻，有很多東西值得思考，不是嗎？

那么，假設(shè)有人給了你一次生命……