Maybe you could be a good writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write a paper for your English class.

可能你能够成为一名出色的作家，可能可以写本书或为报纸撰稿，但是你只有在英语课上完成你的文章才能发现这一点。

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Now imagine the task faced by the French writer Georges Perec, when a friend challenged him to write a whole novel without using E – a letter that is even more common in French than in English.

现在你可以想象一下，当初法国作家乔治·佩里克的朋友给他出难题，让他写一部不包括字母E的小说，他所面临的是一个什么样的艰巨任务。字母E在法语中的使用频率甚至比在英语中还要高！

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Actually, to write more is the best way to consolidate what we have learned about English in schools, and to keep them even well in our minds.

实际上，多写是巩固我们在学校时期所学英语知识的最好的办法，而且能够进一步加深我们的记忆。

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The result, notes Mr Hyman ruefully, is that children are starting to learn (or, more accurately, to attend lessons in) Spanish, when they cannot even read or write English.

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