Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

-- Graham Swift 格拉汉姆·史威夫特

以我的经验来看，小说来得很慢，一旦开始写，我就知道我还有几年而不是几个月的工作要做。

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Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

在早期的史考特和狄更斯、萨克雷之间，有大量的小说作品，其中不少小说的名字应该排在第二类小说的前列，而有些则会把其中不止一个提升到第一类。

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Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

因此，当我仔细考虑这个问题时，由于我的观点的新奇和明显的荒谬，我不得不害怕受到轻视，这几乎使我完全放弃了我已经开始的工作。

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I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

我把小说作为礼物送人，这是我最喜欢收到的礼物了。

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It was over before it had even begun.

还没开始就结束了。

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