Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

  • -- George Saintsbury 圣茨伯里

奥斯汀小姐向小说家展示了平凡事物和现实事物的无限可能性。

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As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all, from time to time, inarticulate, at some level, about some things.

作为一个小说家,我想我可以说我的表达能力很强。但我知道,作为一个人,在其他方面,我并不总是能言善辩。我认为,在某种程度上,我们有时,对某些事情都是口齿不清的。

The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.

小说家的作品既不是为了纠正也不是为了宽恕,不是为了安慰,而是为了使所讲的内容生动活泼。

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

雕刻家是对事物的形状感兴趣的人,是文字中的诗人,是声音中的音乐家。

Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.

有些事情听起来并不像你所期望的那样,这也无妨。