“I’ve just taken one or two liberties with your copy, ” he would say, meaning that it had been completely rewritten into the best simple, accurate, sparely punctuated Colquhoun prose.

他会说，“我把你的稿子做了一两处处理”，意思是，稿子已经改成最简洁、最准确、标点最少的科尔克霍恩风格。

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"I've just taken one or two liberties with your copy," he would say, meaning that it had been completely rewritten into the best simple, accurate, sparely punctuated Colquhoun prose.

他会说，“我把你的稿子做了一两处处理”，意思是，稿子已经改成最简洁、最准确、标点最少的科尔克·霍恩风格。

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This story too is relatively sparely narrated, with little reported speech.

这个故事叙述得较为简略，人物的对话也很少。

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As you walk around the sparely hung rooms, you see immediately that Manet's portraits rarely conformed to 19th-century practice.

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It rhymes, but sparely, and when occasion demands.

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The artist and his sparely-drawn strip have taken knocks over the years, but Dilbert's piercing take on corporate life far outdates revered parodies like The Office and Office Space, and some whiny critic wouldn't be the first dolt Dilbert encountered in his long, long career.

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