此时，莫兰唱起《埃及的圣玛丽》，气愤的观众抓过他的手杖，正要对他一阵痛打，却发现他和真正的莫兰是如此之像，困惑之下，他们向后退去。

While he was doing so, Moran started his Mary of Egypt, but the indignant crowd seizing his stick were about to belabour him, when they fell back bewildered anew by his close resemblance to himself.

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他们倒是不像维克多·弗兰肯斯坦那样还要普罗米修斯之雷赋予这个生物以生命的实质。

Unlike Victor Frankenstein, though, they needed no extra spark of Promethean lightning to give the creature its living essence.

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本次评奖周期间，意见相左的评委们最终把2006年布克奖授予了基兰•德赛的《遗失之继承》。奇怪的是，埃米斯的出版商甚至都未将他的著作送审。

In the week that a divided jury awarded the 2006 prize to Kiran Desai's "the Inheritance of Loss", what is astonishing is that Mr Amis's publishers did not even submit his book for consideration.

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