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传记
Biographies
I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.
我读了很多有非洲背景的传记和书籍。
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
关于我的传记主题,我总是有大量的资料。
My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.
我总是读音乐传记。我对此有着与生俱来的兴趣和激情。
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
绝大多数的传记都是在家庭痉挛和遗忘之间的灰色过渡。
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
最好的采访就像最好的传记一样,应该歌颂人类的奇特和多样性。
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
一旦你接触到人类的传记,政治信仰是由逻辑决定的观念就会像被扎破的气球一样崩溃。
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
我不想写传记小说,尤其是因为我已经写了小说,我也不想挑战传记游戏的规则,尽管这些规则可能很武断。
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
总的来说,传记和自传比过去二十年的小说更令人印象深刻,但其中那些怪异的畅销书最不可能经受住时间的考验。