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文学
Literary
Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.
我从小就有写小说的天赋,但我从未想过把写作作为一种真正的职业。我以为你必须有文学背景才能成为一个成功的作家,海明威或菲茨杰拉德的儿子。
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.
如果从前面评论的文学基调中有人设想,我们对为群众利益而进行的激进运动漠不关心,这是十九世纪至高无上的光荣,那么他们很快就会发现他们犯了一个惊人的错误。
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
每一本书,都是凭直觉感觉出来的,就小说而言,都是凭直觉做出来的,都是站在过去的基础上,并从中成长起来的。我觉得在我文学生涯的任何阶段,都可以说上一本书包含了其他所有的内容。
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I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
我不认为我的电影是文学作品;它们是基于生活中最普通的事情。
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
经典语录是全世界文坛人士的口头禅。
You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.
你不必死后才写一部经典,你也不必为了聪明而去写文学作品。
Let us now celebrate the literary allusion. Let us now celebrate the trope and willful enjambment. Let us now celebrate the assonance and alliteration of all of it. Let us now celebrate the sound of our own voices.
现在让我们来庆祝这个文学典故。现在让我们来庆祝这一比喻和故意的干扰。现在让我们来庆祝所有这些的谐音和头韵。现在让我们来庆祝我们自己的声音。
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
文学想象是作家向爱书者提供的审美对象。
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
几个世纪以来,在文坛上被认为是歌曲的,是任何看起来像普通旋律背景的歌词的文字。