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。

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。

I was very aware that my path into the industry would probably be as an actress and not in production, that I could learn a lot that way. And I did.

我非常清楚,我进入这个行业的道路很可能是当演员,而不是在制作方面,那样我可以学到很多东西。我所做的。

She put her hands around the neck of our production manager, and you know, started to choke him.

她把手放在我们生产经理的脖子上,你知道,开始掐他。

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

我不写小册子,我写小说。我不是传教士,我是小说家。

I don't very often read novels.

我不常读小说。