Writing Life
WRITING LIFE
VIẾT NÊN CUỘC ĐỜI
"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve."
"Bất cứ điều gì tâm trí có thể nghĩ ra và tin tưởng thì con người đều có thể làm được."
Napoleon Hill
Listening the passage
Suppose(1)suppose (động từ): giả sử someone gave you a pen – a sealed(2)A sealed ở đây có nghĩa là mới toanh. Sealed (tính từ): còn niêm phong, solid-colored pen.
You couldn’t see how much ink it had. It might run dry after the first few tentative(3)tentative (tính từ): thử, dự định words or last just long enough to create a masterpiece(4)masterpiece (danh từ): kiệt tác (or several) that would last forever and make a difference in the scheme of things. You don’t know before you begin.
Under the rules of the game, you really never know. You have to take a chance!
Actually(5)Actually (trạng từ): thực ra, thực sự, no rule of the game states you must do anything. Instead of picking up and using the pen, you could leave it on a shelf or in a drawer where it will dry up, unused.
Or would you take the pen in hand, plunge right in and just do it, struggling to keep up with the twists and turns of the torrents(7)torrent (danh từ): dòng lũ, dòng nước chảy xiếc. Ở đây Torrent được dùng mang nghĩa "dòng ngôn từ cứ tuôn trào ra" of words that take you where they take you?
Would you write cautiously(8)cautiously (trạng từ): thận trọng and carefully, as if the pen might run dry the next moment, or would you pretend or believe (or pretend to believe) that the pen will write forever and proceed accordingly?
And of what would you write: Of love? Hate? Fun? Misery? Life? Death? Nothing? Everything?
Would you write to please just yourself? Or others? Or yourself by writing for others?
Would your strokes be tremblingly timid or brilliantly bold? Fancy with a flourish(9)flourish (danh từ): phong cách viết bay bướm or plain?
Would you even write? Once you have the pen, no rule says you have to write. Would you sketch? Scribble? Doodle or draw?
Would you stay in or on the lines, or see no lines at all, even if they were there? Or are they?
There’s a lot to think about here, isn’t there?
Now, suppose someone gave you a life(10)Life (danh từ): cuộc sống. Đây là từ khóa của bài viết. Trong giây phút hiện tại này bạn đang ngập tràng sự sống.
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