The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

  • -- Frank Norris 弗兰克·诺里斯

小说家的作用……就是以他的眼光来评价生活。

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Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

此外,顺序是构成结构函数的必要条件。一种物理机制,无论是一组劳动者,动物的身体,还是机器,只有在符合物理秩序的情况下才能工作。

Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.

奥威尔是那种充满委屈的人。他非常忠诚。一旦他了解你,他就非常忠诚。他满腔怒火,毫无理智地憎恨着。

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。

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

在我们这个时代,美是有作用的。