Julian Barnes has won the 2011 Man Booker Prize at fourth time of trying for his novella The Sense of an Ending.

朱利安·巴恩斯凭借其中篇小说《朝花夕拾》，在第四次冲击曼布克文学奖后终于如愿以偿摘得今年桂冠。

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This has an application to literary matters as well. Criticism is in one sense part of the work itself. The work is inherently incomplete and it is a never-ending process of supplementing it.

这同样适用于文学，批评在某种意义上成为作品的一部分，对作品不断地加以补充，并且这个过程是不会终止的，因为作品本质上是不完整的。

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We don't want to have more students be like the young Mr. Wang, ending up with an unshakable sense of shame and guilt for the rest of their lives!

我们不希望当年的王士明越来越多，我们也不要年轻的学子们一辈子都带着一份扔不掉的愧疚！

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Last year's winner, Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending, has sold 300, 000 copies so far.

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Also nominated was Geoff Dyer's take on Julian Barnes' Booker-winning novel, The Sense of An Ending, of which he said: "It isn't terrible, it is just so... average, " and David Sexton's review of Carol Ann Duffy's The Bees - calling it "very GCSE".

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Weekly sales in the U.K. of last year's winner, "Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes, jumped from 2, 535 to 14, 534 -- an increase of 473% -- in the week it won, according to Nielsen Bookscan.

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