晨读英语美文100篇 Passage 20. Suppose Someone Gave You a Pen
[00:01.09]Passage 20. Suppose Someone Gave You a Pen
[00:07.76]Suppose someone gave you a pen — a sealed, solid-colored pen.
[00:14.00]You couldn’t see how much ink it had.
[00:16.95]It might run dry after the first few tentative words
[00:21.11]or last just long enough to create a masterpiece (or several)
[00:26.36]that would last forever and make a difference in the scheme of things.
[00:30.41]You don’t know before you begin.
[00:33.04]Under the rules of the game, you really never know.
[00:36.76]You have to take a chance!
[00:38.84]Actually, no rule of the game states you must do anything.
[00:43.65]Instead of picking up and using the pen,
[00:46.71]you could leave it on a shelf or in a drawer where it will dry up, unused.
[00:52.84]But if you do decide to use it, what would you do with it?
[00:56.89]How would you play the game?
[00:58.93]Would you plan and plan before you ever wrote a word?
[01:03.20]Would your plans be so extensive that you never even got to the writing?
[01:08.23]Or would you take the pen in hand, plunge right in and just do it,
[01:13.37]struggling to keep up with the twists and turns of the torrents of words that take you where they take you?
[01:19.60]Would you write cautiously and carefully,as if the pen might run dry the next moment,
[01:25.62]or would you pretend or believe (or pretend to believe)
[01:30.22]that the pen will write forever and proceed accordingly?
[01:34.49]And of what would you write:
[01:36.78] Of love? Hate? Fun? Misery? Life? Death? Nothing? Everything?
[01:43.46]Would you write to please just yourself? Or others?
[01:47.51]Or yourself by writing for others?
[01:50.57]Would your strokes be tremblingly timid or brilliantly bold?
[01:55.28]Fancy with a flourish or plain?
[01:57.68]Would you even write?
[01:59.32]Once you have the pen, no rule says you have to write.
[02:03.26]Would you sketch? Scribble? Doodle or draw?
[02:06.55]Would you stay in or on the lines, or see no lines at all, even if they were there?
[02:13.22]Or are they?
[02:14.31]There’s a lot to think about here,isn’t there?
[02:16.83]Now, suppose someone gave you a life... 晨读英语美文100篇 美文英语 英语美文50篇 英语美文小短文 晨读英语 晨读美文 英语美文摘抄小短文 英语美文200字 英语励志短文
[00:07.76]Suppose someone gave you a pen — a sealed, solid-colored pen.
[00:14.00]You couldn’t see how much ink it had.
[00:16.95]It might run dry after the first few tentative words
[00:21.11]or last just long enough to create a masterpiece (or several)
[00:26.36]that would last forever and make a difference in the scheme of things.
[00:30.41]You don’t know before you begin.
[00:33.04]Under the rules of the game, you really never know.
[00:36.76]You have to take a chance!
[00:38.84]Actually, no rule of the game states you must do anything.
[00:43.65]Instead of picking up and using the pen,
[00:46.71]you could leave it on a shelf or in a drawer where it will dry up, unused.
[00:52.84]But if you do decide to use it, what would you do with it?
[00:56.89]How would you play the game?
[00:58.93]Would you plan and plan before you ever wrote a word?
[01:03.20]Would your plans be so extensive that you never even got to the writing?
[01:08.23]Or would you take the pen in hand, plunge right in and just do it,
[01:13.37]struggling to keep up with the twists and turns of the torrents of words that take you where they take you?
[01:19.60]Would you write cautiously and carefully,as if the pen might run dry the next moment,
[01:25.62]or would you pretend or believe (or pretend to believe)
[01:30.22]that the pen will write forever and proceed accordingly?
[01:34.49]And of what would you write:
[01:36.78] Of love? Hate? Fun? Misery? Life? Death? Nothing? Everything?
[01:43.46]Would you write to please just yourself? Or others?
[01:47.51]Or yourself by writing for others?
[01:50.57]Would your strokes be tremblingly timid or brilliantly bold?
[01:55.28]Fancy with a flourish or plain?
[01:57.68]Would you even write?
[01:59.32]Once you have the pen, no rule says you have to write.
[02:03.26]Would you sketch? Scribble? Doodle or draw?
[02:06.55]Would you stay in or on the lines, or see no lines at all, even if they were there?
[02:13.22]Or are they?
[02:14.31]There’s a lot to think about here,isn’t there?
[02:16.83]Now, suppose someone gave you a life... 晨读英语美文100篇 美文英语 英语美文50篇 英语美文小短文 晨读英语 晨读美文 英语美文摘抄小短文 英语美文200字 英语励志短文
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