尚能饭 wrote:
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
孙老先生的译文是：
有力的文章都是简练的。一句之中不应有多余的词语，一段之中不应有多余的句子，正如一幅画中不应有多余的笔墨，一部机器不应有多余的部件一样。但这并非要求作者把每个句子都写得很短，也不是要求他处理题材时删去一切细节，只留下个轮廓，而是要求每个字都要起作用。
我不揣冒昧，也试译了一下，贻笑CND坛子里之大方：
有力的文字都是简练的。句中应无冗词，段中应无赘句，正如画中应无多余线条，机器应无多余部件一样。但这并非要求作者句句写短，或略去细节，只将题材勾画出轮廓，而是要求字字言之有物。