Here's a passage from Elmore Leonard's novel Be Cool.

下面一段摘自艾尔莫·莱昂纳德的小说《耍酷》。

Mostly when I think of pacing, I go back to Elmore Leonard, who explained it so perfectly by saying he just left out the boring parts.

通常我想到节奏的问题时，总会援引艾尔莫·莱昂纳德，因为他的说法简单明了，切中要害——删除枯燥部分。

This last is phonetically rendered street vocabulary. Few writers have Wolfe's ability to translate such stuff to the page. (Elmore Leonard is another writer who can do it. )

最后一段是按照街头语言的发音写的。很少作家有伍尔夫这本事，能把这种语言呈现在纸上（还有一位埃尔莫·雷昂纳德也做得到）。

Yet the dialogue does ring true to our ear; at his best (and although Be Cool is quite entertaining, it is far from Leonard's best) , Elmore Leonard is capable of a kind of street poetry.

艾尔莫·莱昂纳德状态最好的时候，能写出一种大街上特有的诗意（虽然说《耍酷》是部很吸引人的小说，却远非莱昂纳德的上好佳作）。