It must struggle against events which would help to achieve its goal too rapidly--by a kind of short-circuit.

它会在危险中挣扎,因为危险会太早把它带到终点。

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But there's more, and this is why novels are long: - not too long, not too short, but of a certain length-- of a certain magnitude, as Aristotle puts it.

但是当然还有很多别的东西，要不这本书也不会那么长：,不是太长，但也不短，刚刚好能说明清楚问题的长度-,亚里士多德这么评价。

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They said five years is too short--it's got to be longer -they said fifteen years.

他们说五年太短,要长一点,应该定为十五年

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