来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第5集 第5集》

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  and he would spend inordinate amounts of time organizing them.
  而且他会无节制地花时间去组织它们
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  Let me read to you how he describes the action of setting one of these things up:
  让我给你们读一下他是怎么描述布局步骤的
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  "It should be understood that competition in chess problems is not
  "人们应该明白 象棋中的竞争并非仅存
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  really between white and black, but between the composer and the
  黑白二子之间 还存于棋局的设计者
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  hypothetical solver.
  与假想的解棋者之间
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  Just as in a first-rate work of fiction, the real clash is not
  就像一流的小说创作 真正地冲突并不发生在角色身上
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  between the characters, but between the author and the world.
  而应产生于作者与这个世界之间
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  So that a great part of the problem's value is due to the number
  棋盘上的谜题最大价值在于尝试的次数
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  of tries, delusive opening moves, false scents, specious lines of play,
  开局的迷惑手法 欺骗的踪迹 徒有其表的棋路
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  astutely and lovingly prepared to lead the would-be solver astray.
  敏捷而又可爱地准备好引领假想的解棋者误入歧途
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  But whatever I can say about this matter of problem composing,
  但无论我对如何描述组合棋局这件事
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  I do not seem to convey sufficiently the ecstatic core of the process and
  我似乎并没有完全传达出过程中令人痴迷的核心以及