Formulate your ideas before you begin to write.

在你开始动笔之前，先系统地陈述一下你思想。

And I've told her she's to keep her quill to herself for a whole year.

我叫她一年之内不得动笔写东西。

Would your plans be so extensive that you never even got to the writing?

你会不会由于计划过于来不及动笔呢？

But long before they wrote it down on paper, people told it to one another.

但早在他们动笔写之前，人们就已经传开了。

You don't know before you begin.

这些，在动笔前，都是无法得知。

The second week you returned and my work practically had to be given up.

可第二个星期你回来了，我简直就无法再动笔了。

He had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it.

他老是说就要画他那幅杰作了，可是直到现在他还没有动笔。

I never heard of anyone making a 'skeleton', as we were taught at school.

我从未听说过任何一位作家像我们在学校那样，动笔前先列什么提纲。

Um...last night, I started writing, and...well, I think there's a book in there.

呃...昨天晚上 我就动笔写了写，呃...我想完全可以写本书出来。

There is nothing like boredom to make you write, agreed a young Agatha Christie.

没有什么比无聊更能让你动笔写作了，年轻阿加莎·克里斯蒂对此表示同意。

He began to write, looking up now and again to check the large hour-glass on the desk beside Professor Marchbanks.

他动笔写着答案，不时抬眼查看一下玛奇班教授桌子上沙漏。

You are not permitted to begin the exam until the teacher tells you to start.

知道老师说考试开始，你才能动笔。

They do read a lot as far as I know, but they haven't got the confidence to write, said Khoo Thwe.

据我所知他们进行了量阅读, 但他们没有信心动笔, 科尔·塔维说道。

Don't you wanna get started on that story about the twins?

你不想马上动笔 写那个双胞胎故事吗?

I guess you're right, I got to go get started.

我想你说对, 我要开始动笔写了。

So that's why I could finally write the book, I think. I had to.

我想正因为如此 我才终于能动笔写这本书 我必须要写。

Plan before you write, even if you just spend a minute thinking about what you're going to say and in what order.

动笔之前做好规划，即使是只花一分钟时间想想要按什么顺序写什么内容也行。

Eustacia might possibly decline to use her pen—it was rather her way to work silently—and surprise him by appearing at his door.

游苔莎有可能不肯动笔——她向来喜欢不声不响地行动——是突然出现在他家门口给他一个惊喜。

He had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it. For several years he had painted nothing.

他老是说就要画他那幅杰作了，可是直到现在他还没有动笔。这么多年了，他什么也没有画过。

Actually, I’m trying to keep a positive outlook on the whole thing. Um, last night I started writing and, well, I think there’s a book in there.

其实我一直想就这事保持乐观态度。呃..昨天晚上，我就动笔写了写，呃...我想完全可以写本书出来。