A still picture could only imply the existence of time, while time in a novel passed at the whim of the reader.

"一张静止的照片只是暗示了时间的存在，而小说中的时间则随着读者的幻想而流逝。

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He tells me that there are plans to make "Atlas Shrugged" into a major motion picture — it is the only classic novel of recent decades that was never made into a movie.

他告诉我，他们计划将《地球颤栗》拍成电影，因为这是近几十年唯一没有拍成电影的经典小说。

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Well, it's not exactly a novel idea, but acomic book about Prince William and Kate's love story makes sense for those whoenjoy picture books and word bubbles.

哎呀，它不是一部真正意义上的小说，而是一本关于威廉和凯特罗曼史的连环画，因此深受那些喜欢图画书和对话语框的人的欢迎。

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Another best picture nominee about a teenager is "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire."

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He paints a novel picture of a British prime minister, William Gladstone, acting like a New-Age healer and helping to relieve his wife's aching breasts, strained after years of child rearing, by gently stroking them.

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Chorion, the company that controls Blyton's estate, said it could not be 100% sure about the differences between the picture book and the novel because they both "pre-date our acquisition of the Blyton Estate".

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Newspaper writers have learned to color everyday events so well that to read them will give posterity a truer picture than the historic or descriptive novel could do.

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