不积跬步，无以至千里；不积小流，无以成江海。
《荀子 | 劝学篇》
Without accumulating small steps, one cannot reach a thousand miles; without small streams accumulated, rivers and sea cannot be formed.
Many adjectives and adverbs that are carried over into translations from the Chinese originals are simply redundant in English.
Quadrupling GNP will provide a new starting point from which, in another 30 to 50 years, we shall approach the level of the developed countries.
Intensifiers (like “serious”, “great”, “extremely” or “certainly”) should be looked upon with suspicion: more often than not, an English text is better off without them.
A skilled writer will try to find, in the rich vocabulary the language has to offer, a strong, precise word that by itself will convey the meaning of both the intensifier and the weak word.
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