The aesthetic motive is very feeble in a lot of writers, but even a pamphleteer or a writer of textbooks will have pet words and phrases which appeal to him for nonutilitarian reasons;

• 热衷于美的动机在不少作家身上是很薄弱的，但即使是写小册子或教科书的作家，也有一些他偏宠的得意的词语。这些语词投其所好并不是由于其实用价值。