冰山原则英文

"Death in the Afternoon" 就在该作品中，海明威中提出了 "冰山原则"： "冰山在海面上移动很是庄严雄伟，这正是因为它只有八分之一露出水面。" 因而他的作品以简洁、含蓄、耐人寻味而著称。

Ernest Hemingway’s “iceberg theory” suggests that the writer include in the text only a small portion of what he knows, leaving about ninety percent of the content a mystery that grows beneath the surface of the writing. This type of writing lends itself naturally to a version of dream-interpretation If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A good writer does not need to reveal every detail of a character or action.