Let's start with the prince of pithy statements, the Cheshire Cat.

让我们从精练语句的王子——柴郡猫开始。

Later on in the class we will talk about tailoring your CV to make it relevant.

我们后面的课程将谈论如何取舍你的简历使其精练。

You have to read widely, constantly refining and redefining your own work as you do so.

你必须得广泛阅读涉猎，同时不断精练重新定义自己的作品。

Tonga--for that was his name--was a fine boatman and owned a big, roomy canoe of his own.

他的名字叫做格，是一个精练的船夫，有一只很大的独木船。

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Having authentic and polished oral English is every learner's dream.

早上好，女士们先生们。拥有地道而精练的英语口语是每个学习者的梦想。

First, Hemingway never said it – it's actually a pithy re-phrasing of a passage from a novel called Reuben, Reuben by Peter De Vries.

首先，海明威从来没有说过这句话——这实际上是对彼得·德·弗里斯的小说《鲁本》中一段话的精练改写。

When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

亚伯兰听见他侄儿（原文作" 弟兄" ）被掳去，就率领他家里生养的精练壮丁三百一十八人，直追到但。

It is possible to overuse the well-turned fragment (and Kellerman sometimes does) , but frags can also work beautifully to streamline narration, create clear images, and create tension as well as to vary the prose-line.

这种精练短语很容易被滥用（凯勒曼有时就会这么做），但短语同样可以用得漂亮，让叙述紧凑，塑造出清晰的形象，产生张力，还可以使句型丰富多变。