Suppose someone gave you a pen - a sealed, solid-colored pen.

假如有人送你一支筆苔可，一支不可拆卸的單色鋼筆.

You couldn't see how much ink it had. It might run dry after the first few tentative words or last just long enough to create a masterpiece (or several) that would last forever and make a difference in the scheme of things. You don't know before you begin.

里面究竟有多少墨水看不出∏缶В或許在你試探性地寫上幾個字后它就會枯干崖蜜，或許足夠用來創(chuàng)作一部影響深遠的不朽巨著(或是幾部)浊仆。而這些，在動筆前豫领，都是無法得知的抡柿。

Under the rules of the game, you really never know. You have to take a chance! Actually, 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.

在這個游戲規(guī)則下，你真的永遠不會預知結(jié)果等恐。你只能去碰運氣洲劣！事實上，這個游戲里沒有規(guī)則指定你必須要做什幺课蔬。相反闪檬，你甚至可以根本不去動用這支筆，把它扔在書架上或是抽屜里讓它的墨水干枯购笆。

But if you do decide to use it, what would you do with it? How would you play the game?Would you plan and plan before you ever wrote a word? Would your plans be so extensive that you never even got to the writing?

但是粗悯，如果你決定要用它的話，你會用它來做什幺呢同欠？你將怎樣來進行這個游戲呢?你會不寫一個字样傍，老是計劃來計劃去嗎横缔？你會不會由于計劃過于宏大而來不及動筆呢?

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 of words that take you where they take you?

或者你只是手里拿著筆，一頭扎進去寫衫哥，不停地寫茎刚，艱難地隨著文字洶涌的浪濤而隨波逐流？

Would you write cautiously 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?

你會小心謹慎的寫字撤逢，好象這支筆在下一個時刻就可能會干枯膛锭；還是裝做或相信這支筆能夠永遠寫下去而信手寫來呢？

And of what would you write: Of love? Hate? Fun? Misery? Life? Death? Nothing? Everything?

你將會寫些什么呢?: 愛情?恨?悲傷蚊荣？生命初狰？死亡？無從下筆互例？所有一切

Would you write to please just yourself?Or others? Or yourself by writing for others?

你寫時是為了取悅自己?他人?還是通過寫他人來取悅自己?

Would your strokes be tremblingly timid or brilliantly bold? Fancy with a flourish or plain?

你落筆時會是顫抖膽怯的奢入，還是鮮明果敢的？花里胡哨還是樸實無華媳叨？

Would you even write? Once you have the pen, no rule says you have to write.

你會寫作嗎腥光？即使你擁有筆，沒有規(guī)定說你必須寫作糊秆。

Would you sketch? Scribble? Doodle or draw?

你會素描武福？信筆涂鴉？畫畫痘番？

Would you stay in or on the lines, or see no lines at all, even if they were there? Or are they?

你會呆在線里還是線上,或者根本看不到線, 即使他們就在那里? 或者他們在嗎?

There’s a lot to think about here, isn’t there?

還有許多值得思考的事情艘儒，不是嗎？

Now, suppose someone gave you a life…

現(xiàn)在夫偶，假如有人給予你一支生命的筆...