5. Read it aloud.

　　大聲朗讀

　　Reading your works out loud allows you to notice something that you might not have noticed if you were just reading it silently. Go on， read them out loud now. Also， try to listen to your work objectively as you read it. Are you making sense? Or are you simply stringing a couple of words together just to fill a gap?

　　把你的作品朗讀出來，這會讓你注意到默讀時所忽略的內(nèi)容?，F(xiàn)在就把它們朗讀出來吧。另外，當你朗讀時，試著客觀地去傾聽你的作品。你寫的有理嗎?還是只是把幾個詞湊在一起來填補空白?

　　6. Avoid using jargon as much as possible.

　　盡量避免使用行話。

　　Not everyone in your audience will know what a "bull market” is. Not everyone knows that "pyrexia” is basically the same thing as "a fever”。 And surely you can come up with a better term for high blood pressure than "hypertension”?

　　不是每個讀者都知道“牛市”是什么。不是每個人都知道“pyrexia” (注：發(fā)熱的臨床用語)和“fever”基本上是一個意思。當然，你可以造一個比“hypertension”更好的詞來表示高血壓。

　　7. In terms of words， size matters.

　　詞的長短也很重要。

　　Please， don't strain yourself by browsing the Internet， looking for complicated and fancy-sounding words. Less is always more.

　　請不要讓自己忙于瀏覽互聯(lián)網(wǎng)來尋找復雜及花哨的詞。少即是多。

　　示例：

　　- The man gave me a look so sharp that I sincerely believed it could pierce my heart and see my innermost fears.

　　-那名男子看我的眼神如此的犀利，我真的相信它能刺穿我的心，看清我內(nèi)心的恐懼。

　　- Better: The man glared at me.

　　更好的寫法：那名男子瞪著我。

　　8. Being positive is better than being negative–even in writing!

　　肯定比否定要更好——即使在寫作中!

　　示例：

　　- I did not think that the unbelievable would not occur.

　　-我不認為令人難以置信的事情不會發(fā)生。

　　- Better: I thought the unbelievable would happen.

　　-更好的寫法：我認為令人難以置信的事情是會發(fā)生的。

　　9. Set aside time for revising and rewriting–after you've written the whole content.

　　留下時間來修改和重寫——在你寫完全部內(nèi)容后。