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.

  • -- George Saintsbury 圣茨伯里

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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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

我们称失去父亲的人为孤儿;一个失去妻子的鳏夫。但是,这个人知道失去朋友的巨大痛苦,我们用什么名字称呼他呢?在这里,每一种语言都是沉默的,在无能为力中保持着平静。

The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.

在过去的一年里,豆类用于石油生产和人类食品的价值得到了如此迅速和普遍的承认,以至于这种作物的商业地位远远超过了它以前的地位。

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

拥有明确目标的力量是对生活的巨大力量。一个人的声音、衣着、表情、动作,决定和改变着他或她开始有理由地生活。

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

伟大、宏大、严肃的小说总会获奖。如果这是一部伟大、宏大、严肃的小说和一部有趣的小说之间的战争,那么有趣的小说注定要失败。

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

在这三部小说之后,我一度放弃了写小说;我不满足于浪漫的厄运,但也没有看到太多的办法。

For the last five years I've been in the production business.

在过去的五年中,我一直从事生产方面的工作。