新概念英语第四册53-04

He might as well be proud of son. 他完全有理由为他儿子自豪.

bore 令人讨厌的人

black look 遭人白眼

cover the distance.. 弥补...之间的距离（= cater for..）

pertinent 中肯的

a year or two back = a year or two years ago 一两年以前

talent 智慧 灵感

draft 草稿

like any other 表示单数 "任何一个"

make order 条理程序

submit to 屈服、容忍 =bear

discipline 自律

critic 批评家

when he flirts with fame 当他不太考虑名誉问题的时候 错误，应为：追求名誉

take time off 休息

from living with himself 不再探索内心的感受

at its inmost point在内心深处

he might as well try to explain a crime or a love affair. He is also, incidentally, an unforgivable bore.

This temptation to cover the distance between himself and the reader, to study his image in the sight of those who do not know him, can be his undoing: he has begun to write to please.

A young English writer made the pertinent observation a year or two back that the talent goes into the first draft, and the art into the drafts that follow. For this reason also the writer, like any other artist, has no resting place, no crowd or movement in which he may take comfort, no judgment from outside which can replace the judgment from within. A writer makes order out of the anarchy of his heart; he submits himself to a more ruthless discipline than any critic dreamed of, and when he flirsts with fame, he is taking time off from living with himself, from the search for what his world contains at its inmost point.