| Prose by its very nature is longer than verse, and the virtues peculiar | 【B1】________ |
| with it manifest themselves gradually. If the cardinal virtue of poetry | 【B2】________ |
| is love, the cardinal virtue of prose is just; and, whereas love makes | 【B3】________ |
| you act and speak in the spur of the moment, justice needs | 【B4】________ |
| inquiry, patient and a control even of the noblest passions. | 【B5】________ |
| To justice here I do not mean justice only to particular people | 【B6】________ |
| or ideas, but a habit of justice in all processes of thought, the style | 【B7】________ |
| tranquillized and a form moulded to that habit. The master of prose | 【B8】________ |
| is not cold, and he will not let any word or image inflame him with | 【B9】________ |
| a heat irrelevant with his purpose Unhasting, unresting. he | 【B10】________ |
| pursues them, subduing all the riches of his mind to it, | 【B11】________ |
| reject all beauties that are not germane to it; making his own beauty out | 【B12】________ |
| of the very accomplishment of it, out of the whole work and its proportions, so as | 【B13】________ |
| you must read to the end before you know that it is beauty. | 【B14】________ |
| But he has his reward, for his is trusted and convinces, | 【B15】________ |
| as those that are at the mercy of their own eloquence | 【B16】________ |
| do not; and he gives a pleasure all the greater for be | 【B17】________ |
| hardly noticed. In the best prose, whether narrative and argument, | 【B18】________ |
| we are so led on as we read, that we do not stop to applauding the | 【B18】________ |
| writer, or do we stop to question him. | 【B20】________ |
【B1】
by→of
(此处应用of表示散文自身所蕴含的特质,by不能表示此意义,故将by改为of。)
【B2】
with→to
(peculiar to是……特有的,为固定搭配。故将with改为to。)
【B3】
just→justice
(根据句意“那么散文的主要品质则为其合理公正性”,just为形容词形式,而justice才表示名词“公正性”,故 改为justice。)
【B4】
in→on
(on the spur of the moment一时冲动之下;心血来潮。为习语的固定搭配,故将in改成on。)
【B5】
patient→patience
(根据与其并列的词都是名词可知此处也应为名词,故应将patient改为patience。)
【B6】
To→By
(根据句意“我这里说的合理公正”,to不能表示“说”这一含义,而by可以表示“说某词语或某一番话”,故改为By。)
【B7】
the→a
(根据上文并列的“a habit of justice”和下文并列的“a form”均未表示特指,故此处也不应为特指,故改为 a。)
【B8】
to→by
(根据句意“这一形式是由这一习惯塑成的”,应用by来表示,故改为by。)
【B9】
and→but
(根据上文说作者并非冷酷无情,而此处句意为“他不会让任何与写作意图无关的词语或图象热昏他的头 脑”可知此处表转折,应改为“but”。)
【B10】
with→to
(irrelevant to表示与……不相关,固定搭配,故改为to。)
【B11】
them→it
(此处的代词是代指下文的“is own beauty”故应用it来指代。)
【B12】
reject→rejecting
(根据上文与其并列的“subduing all the riches of his mind to it”可知此处reject也应该用动名词的形式,故改为 rejecting。)
【B13】
as→that
(根据句意“所以你只有通篇全读后,才能真正领略到它的美”此处表结果,故将as改为that。)
【B14】
beauty→beautiful
(若此处用beauty,则前面形式应改为“know its beauty”,显然不能实现,故将其改为beautiful符合语法和句意。)
【B15】
his→he
(根据后面的“is trusted”可知此处应为人称代词he。)
【B16】
that→who
(此处的关系词是指代后面夸夸其谈的人的,故应改为who。)
【B17】
be→being
(根据前面的for可知此处不能用原型,故应改为being。)
【B18】
and→or
(根据句意“无论其是叙述型还是辩论型的”可知此处表意为“或者”,不是“和”,故应改为or。)
【B19】
applauding→applaud
(根据前面的to不表介词,可知其后应加动词原型,故将applauding改为applaud。)
【B20】
or→nor
(根据上文的否定形式,否定中表并列应该用nor,故改为nor。)