她放下笔，搁在本子上。

She put down the pen on the top of the pad.

他悉心研究这个题目之后才敢下笔写。

He soaked himself in the subject before daring to write about it.

痛苦的重压和悲伤的场合迫使他下笔写作。

Bitter constraint and sad occasion are forcing him to write.

甚至有人把这个戏谑地称之为“提笔忘字”或者“拿起笔，却忘了如何下笔。”

There is even a Chinese word for it: “tibiwangzi”, or “take pen, forget character”.

先思考而后下笔，这是最基本的写作准则，无论怎么讲都不过分。这倒不是说我们需要在如何表达自己的层面上大伤脑筋，而是说，我们最起码得想想我们要说的话能否正确表达我们希望表达的意思，是否有辞不达意的现象。

One general message which cannot be overstated is that we must think before we write - not just think of how we are to express ourselves, but think first of what exactly it is that we wish to express.