作者本人也参考了许多电影来印证自己的回忆。

The author himself makes many references to films and often throws doubts on his own memory and his ability to convince.

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从某种意义上来说，这一模仿小说的作者塞司•葛拉汉•史密斯在使简•奥斯汀的作品从坟墓中复苏并将其改写成恐怖作品的同时，也将奥斯汀本人变成了僵尸。

In a sense, the author of this pastiche, Seth Grahame-Smith, has turned Jane Austen into a zombie, reviving her text from the grave and turning it into a grisly version of the original.

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究其原因，部分是因为作者的论题——语言乃探析人性之窗——过于宽泛；甚至连作者本人也不得不承认，所有和语言学相关的论据都得屈从于该论题。

Part of the problem is that Mr Pinker's thesis—that language is a window into human nature—is so broad as to admit practically anything with a linguistic bent to it as evidence.

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