If this story must be written, we must have the courage to eliminate all adjectives that tend to excite wonder: they would achieve the opposite effect, of impoverishing the narrative.

• 如果必须要写这篇故事，我们必须要有勇气剔除易于激发我们想入非非的所有形容词：这些词会使叙述贫瘠无力，起到相反的效果。