There's no such thing as the contemporary novel. Before I seem the complete reactionary, let me add that I've happily joined in many discussions about 'the contemporary novel' where what that usually, unproblematically means is novels that have appeared recently or may appear soon.

  • -- Graham Swift 格拉汉姆·史威夫特

当代小说是不存在的。在我显得完全反动之前,让我补充一句,我很高兴地参加了许多关于“当代小说”的讨论,在这些讨论中,通常毫无疑问的意思是最近或即将出版的小说。

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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.

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。

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。

What will support any relationship is clear, complete and conscious conversations when upsets or breakdowns occur.

当沮丧或崩溃发生时,支持任何关系的是清晰、完整和有意识的对话。

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

金钱就像第六感,没有它,你就不能充分利用其他五种感官。