A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

  • -- Paul Theroux 保罗·泰鲁

一部小说抓住了任何其他形式都不可能抓住的精髓。

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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

人们对老小说最常见的两种指责是,它让人感到邪恶地愉悦,它没有教给人们任何东西,但在人们发现这部小说既适合于正当使用,又适合于娱乐之前,这两种指责就已经站不住脚了。

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

没有任何一种人类传家宝能像艺术和语言那样捕捉过去。

When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.

当一个故事抓住我,它来得又快又容易。