Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

  • -- George Saintsbury 圣茨伯里

在早期的史考特和狄更斯、萨克雷之间,有大量的小说作品,其中不少小说的名字应该排在第二类小说的前列,而有些则会把其中不止一个提升到第一类。

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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

我们称失去父亲的人为孤儿;一个失去妻子的鳏夫。但是,这个人知道失去朋友的巨大痛苦,我们用什么名字称呼他呢?在这里,每一种语言都是沉默的,在无能为力中保持着平静。

Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.

激发态的存在并不是产生抑制的先决条件;除了兴奋之外,抑制也可以存在,当对已经在进行中的兴奋进行激发时,抑制至少可以抑制或调节它。

We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing.

我们看到大量的印第安人,太平洋沿岸的人们都靠各种各样的种子和捕鱼为生。

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

可以说,雇主的理想是有生产而没有雇员,雇员的理想是有收入而没有工作。

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

只有在小说中,我们才能把另一个人带入我们的脑海,共同创造一些东西。

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

我的小说来自我的内心;它们是我觉得我想做的事情。