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● rendered：发出。the question is put：自己问自己。in God’s name：只是为加重语气之用。venture：带点冒险性的尝试，成败难测的事情。presumptuous：自以为了不起的。unlikely：不可能写得好的。
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● anonymous：没没无闻的。respectable：令人尊敬的。这个字本来的含意是好的，但是现代英文中，这个字含有一点不好的意思：指的是不求真正的善，只是表面上的规规矩矩，奉公守法。
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Well, I can’t. And neither can anyone who intends to write. Perhaps this fear of the public is healthy. I think I like writers to be afraid. They can show their fear by a noble defiance in their work or by a beguiling charm and grace in seeking to win their public. At least fearful ones are not writing for themselves alone. They are seeking to communicate, and their fear is their proof of it.
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● can’t：不能安分守己没没无闻地做人。neither can：重复can’t。
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● fear of the public：怕群众的指责。healthy：健康的；这种心理是有益的。
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● I like writers to be afraid：我喜欢作家有这种“畏人言”的心理。
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● noble defiance：昂然不顾的态度。故意标新立异，不投阿时好——抱这种态度的人，心里面明明有一个对象在。beguiling：讨人喜欢的。
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● At least补充前面的healthy一字：至少这一点是有益的。fearful ones：心存恐惧的作家们。
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● communicate：表达，有话说给人听。proof：证明作家不是在“自说自话”，写作确是有对象的。
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Nevertheless this fear is something to wrestle with, especially in the beginning, at the outset of a career. Women writers are notably tender in this regard, possibly because women are trained, from the cradle, to please. It is the quite practical business of women to please. One way or another, most of us women get our living by it.
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● to wrestle with：与之搏斗，力求解决。at the outset：意即in the beginning。
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● tender：敏感。notably：可以叫人特别注意地。in this regard：在这一点上。
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● from the cradle：从摇篮时开始。to please：此处用作不及物动词。妇女有讨人喜欢的习惯；女作家的文章也特别地要使读者读来感到舒服。
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● one way or another：方法不一。by it：使别人喜欢。
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“Oh no, Mrs. Bowen,” young women writers say to me. “Oh no! I mustn’t write that scene. I couldn’t put it on paper as I have just told it to you. I can’t describe that child, that man, that mother, in such terms!”
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The writer, I maintain, cannot afford such reservations. He must find a technique that will let him describe anybody, anything, any situation—a technique that will permit him to use all his experience of living, tragic, comic, embarrassing, cruel, beautiful.
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● young women writers：年轻的女作家。
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● scene：场景。剧本里的一个小段落称为场景（大段落是幕：act），通常借用作文章里写得生动的一节；有景物，有人物，有动作，有对白；其有声有色犹如舞台上的一个“场景”。
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● couldn’t：此字含有轻微的假定语气——即使我要写，我也不能这样写。平常说话中，I couldn’t是常听得到的。指的是这件事我非但不能做，而且也不“会”去做的。I can’t则单指：我没有这种能力。
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● told：青年作家同前辈作家在讨论写作的问题。谈话的前一段是给作者省略了。我们可以想象：青年作家嘴里在讲一段事情给前辈作家听，但觉得有些顾忌，不能把它写下来，前辈作家则劝她写下来。
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● in such terms：用这种话。
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● maintain：主张。reservations：保留。我说“我什么都会”，这句话就是“没有保留”；我承认我有些事情能做，有些事情不能做，这就是“保留”。
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● can afford：能够负担，而不致吃亏。cannot afford such reservations：作家假如有这种保留，他就不成其为作家了。
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● technique：技巧。这字重复地用，充分表示写作技巧的重要。在表达一方面，作家应该能够描写任何人物、任何事物、任何情境；在做人一方面，作家有了某种技巧，才能利用他所有的人生经验：悲剧的，喜剧的，令人窘迫的，残酷的，或是美丽的。
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Few writers are born with this technique. They must search until they find it. The search, if it teaches nothing else, in the end will teach them to know themselves. Actually it is a little difficult to separate the techniques of writing from the techniques of living—which is another way of saying the style is the man. I have no patience with that view of writing—a quite prevalent view—which looks on style as a trick and on the great techniques of writing as a bag of tricks. I have heard people say to a writer, “Ah, but you could describe that man! I envy you. You could tell that incident as it really happened. You have the gift of words.”
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