Voltaire's book commanded a wide audience, according to Feingold, because "he was neither a mathematician nor a physicist, but a literary giant aloof from the academic disputes over Newtonian ideas".

根据法因戈尔德的说法，伏尔泰的书吸引了广泛的读者，因为“他既不是数学家也不是物理学家，而是一个远离牛顿思想学术之争的文学巨人”。

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Ba jin is a literary giant.

巴金是一位文坛巨匠。

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Shakespeare is a literary giant .

莎士比亚是一位大文豪。

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Mr. Unsworth, 81 years old, died (of lung cancer) the same day another literary giant, Ray Bradbury, died.

WSJ: A Tribute to Barry Unsworth | Dear Book Lover

Banville is philosophical about comparisons his work has drawn to that of fellow Irishman and literary giant Samuel Beckett, who Banville acknowledges as his mentor.

BBC: John Banville

Which underscores the point that Baz Luhrmann and Jay-Z (not to be confused with Jay Gatsby) picked the wrong literary giant to mess with when they saturated the soundtrack of the latest filming of Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" (1925) with rap and hip-hop.

WSJ: The F. Scott Fitzgerald Songbook | Great Gatsby | By Will Friedwald