有些小说读起来绝不可能像观看类如西尔维斯特·史泰龙（Sylvester Stallone）的电影那样刺激过瘾。

There's no way some novel could ever kick as much ass as, say, watching Sylvester Stallone punch a guy's head off his shoulders.

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你不可能这么快就看完了那本小说。

You can't have finished the novel so soon.

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如果之前不去做新闻报道，我一部小说也不可能写出来。

I can't write a novel without first really doing reporting.

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And for me it's fun because I may not know the novel that you end up picking, and so it is a kind of challenge for me to take a novel that you've chosen and come to grips with it myself It may be one that I know.

我也觉得很好玩,因为我可能不知道你们最后选择的小说，所以对我来说,认真对待你们选的一本书很有挑战性,可能是一本我知道的书。

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