So we read to experience the mediocre and the outright rotten; such experience helps us to recognize those things when they begin to creep into our own work, and to steer clear of them.
因此我们阅读、体会那些平庸之作,以及那些绝对的烂书,这样的经验会帮助我们,当这些东西悄然出

已作品中的时候我们能有所识别,免得写成那样。