"The novel was conceived and mainly written by Mary Shelley," Robinson writes in his introduction, but he estimates that Percy wrote "at least" 4, 000 to 5, 000 words of the 72, 000 total.

“这部小说是由玛丽·雪莱构思的，主要也是她写的，”罗宾逊在引言中写道，但是他估计珀西在整个72000字中至少写了4000到5000个字。

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The reaction of many scientists is to lament these "science fiction" stories, to imagine that if Mary Shelley and Aldous Huxley had never committed their imaginings to paper all would have been well.

许多科学家的反应则是对诸如此类的“科幻”故事深感悲哀，认为若不是玛丽·雪莱以及阿尔杜斯·赫胥利将自己的想象付诸文字，哪里会有这些麻烦。

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That is much closer to what Mary Shelley imagined than anything British stem-cell researchers are proposing today.

这更接近于玛丽·雪莱的想象，而不同于今天英国干细胞研究人员的计划。

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In 1987 she appeared as Mary Shelley in Gothic, Ken Russell's lurid take on the visit by the Shelley's and Lord Byron to the Villa Diodati which resulted in Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein.

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About 170 people have volunteered to help restore a theatre which was built for Frankenstein author Mary Shelley.

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"This is something interesting, " Weinstein says with typical understatement, lifting three volumes of a first edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in the store safe sitting next to a page from a Gutenberg Bible and a signed Jules Verne.

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