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The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

  • -- Graham Swift 格拉汉姆·史威夫特

从完全“当下”的意义上讲，当代小说是不可能的，因为小说可能要花好几年的时间来写，所以小说开头的“现在”在写完的时候就已经不存在了。

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One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.

我们当代音乐文化的一个非常重要的方面——有些人可能会说极其重要的方面——是它在历史和地理意义上的扩展，在过去是未知的。

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Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

毫无疑问，由于我所提到的文化在历史和地理上的扩展，我们当代的音乐世界在某种意义上要比早期时期丰富得多。

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There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

有一种追求完美的激情，你很少能看到这种激情得到充分的发展;但你可能会注意到，在成功的人生中，它从来不是完全缺乏的。

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When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

当你从床头柜上拿起一本小说时，你同时放下了自己的生活，在这段时间里你变成了另一个人。

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I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

我尽力表现得尽可能好。那时候我还是个孩子，但我能用镰刀干活。

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