If he had received one line , one personal line , along with one rejection of all his rejections , he would have been cheered 若是在他全部退稿条之中曾有一份上面写了一行字，说了点私人的话，他也会受到鼓舞。
At the end of the fifth week the manuscript came back to him , by mail , without comment . there was no rejection slip , no explanation , nothing 第五周周末稿件邮寄了回来，没有个交代：没有退稿单，没有解释，什么都没有。
When he recovered them , he sent them to the magazines in the east , from which they were returned more promptly , accompanied always by the printed rejection slips 他收到之后又送到了东部去，退稿更快，总是附着印好的退稿条子。
“ if the manuscript is so poorly written that the meaning and significance of the work are obscured , i will reject it without completing the technical review “如果原稿写的很差，意思和意义表达模糊，我会在进行技术审阅之前就退稿。 ”
He told everyone he was absolutely certain that his article would be published by the " times " , but when the letter of rejection came , he had to eat his own words 他逢人就说《泰晤士报》必将发表他的文章。退稿之后，他只好收回他自己的话。
These slips were printed in stereotyped forms and he had received hundreds of them - as many as a dozen or more on each of his earlier manuscripts 退稿条全是按千篇一律的格式印好的。他收到的已有好几百张他早期的稿子每份的退稿条都在一打或一打以上。
In 1889 , 1 ) rudyard kipling received the following 2 ) rejection letter from the san francisco examiner : “ i ' m sorry , mr . kipling , but you just don ' t know how to use the english language 1889年，拉迪亚德?吉卜林曾收到《旧金山晚报》的退稿信： “很抱歉，吉卜林先生，你根本不懂如何使用英语。 ”
You never turned me down , never passed me out a reward - of - unmerit rejection slip , never complained about working overtime . " he dropped his arms upon the table and buried his face in them 归根到底你对我还是够朋友的，从来不拒绝为找做事，从来不给我一份退稿条用以回答我的太能，也从来没有抱怨过加班加点。 ”
He had not finished the sentence , but looked about the mean little room and let his eyes dwell sadly upon a heap of returned manuscripts , still in their long envelopes , which lay in a corner on the floor 话还没说完，他回头看了看那间寒伧的小屋，目光落在一堆退稿上，装在长信封里的份份退稿躺在地板角落山地里。
He read them over and over , and liked them so much that he could not puzzle out the cause of their rejection , until , one day , he read in a newspaper that manuscripts should always be typewritten 他把它们读来读去，仍很喜欢。他真想不出为什么会退稿。直到有一天地在报上读到稿件总应当用打字机打好的，这才明白过来。
