They are quite unlikable, and this is consistent pretty much across O'Connor's fiction : short, long, medium, whatever.

他们一点都不可爱，这些由始至终贯穿于她的作品里：,短篇的，长篇的，中篇的，无论哪种都是。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The very presence in a theatrical piece of a long and weighty philosophical debate like this one could easily be seen as having a pretty tedious effect.

很容易看出这样一个戏剧般长篇,而有分量的哲学争论,有着令人厌倦的作用。

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So, long story short after this fairly arcane syntax, the end result is completely straightforward, do the following 10 times.

如此看来，这个长篇故事经过这个奇异的语法规则，简化后就立马简单明朗了许多，只需要重复做10次就OK了。

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Even there, I won't be spending time reading out loud long passages from the Phaedo.

即便如此,我也不会花时间大声朗读,斐多篇的各大长篇

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At least I don't have those. But what I've done is to excerpt some of the texts earlier in the term-- and actually there's so that it's a little bit lighter after break, when we're doing those long novels.

至少我没有列出那些,但我已经做完的是,在放假前当然会有稍多的阅读量，假期过后我们再读那些长篇小说时就会轻松一点。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选