同时，小说的叙述并没有按时间顺序。 在描写某些事件的时候，作者的口吻仿佛是读者早已知晓了这些事件一般。
The narrative also describes events out of sequence, and furthermore the events are referred to as if the reader already knows all about them.
实际上，西班牙的神秘学家圣十字约翰在16世纪就创造了精神的“暗夜”这个词来描写精神大师成长过程中的这个富有特点的阶段。
Indeed, the Spanish mystic St. John of the Cross in the 16th century coined the term the "dark night" of the soul to describe a characteristic stage in the growth of some spiritual masters.
但是它也是灵活的，可以从它成功地描写了情绪的不同层面，表达了那些细腻的几乎无法表达的感情看出来。
Yet it is flexible, too, as shown by its success in depicting varying shades of mood, in expressing those more intimate emotions which are so very nearly inexpressible.
通过适时描写烹饪和用餐细节，村上平衡了世俗和幻想。
Murakami balances the mundane - intimate descriptions of preparing and eating simple meals feature regularly - with the fantastic.
他也解决了实践人员和时间表的问题，并且虚构的叙述描写了产品“大的构建(Big Build)”如何到达实验室,然后被测试团队所解决。
He also addresses practical personnel and scheduling issues, and the fictional narrative describes how the "Big Build" of the product arrives at the lab and is handled by the test team.
关于描写坏习惯的文章不胜枚举（事实上，他们确实如此），但是当我们已经有足够多的坏习惯时，我们基本上就摆脱它们了。
Many, many posts can be written on bad habits (in fact, they have), but essentially, we’ll get rid of our bad habits when we’ve finally had enough of them.
这一次，希尼先生又回到了“笔”这个意象中，开始了他长长的生涯来描写这样一只笔，如同一支枪一样舒适的依偎在指间。
Time and again Mr Heaney returns to the image of the pen. He began his long career writing of such a pen, nestling snug as a gun between finger and thumb.
有人说，她文章里对现实画面的残酷描写影响了英国大众对美国南北战争的看法，防止了英国人向南方倾斜。
Some claim that the graphic descriptions of cruelty contained in her journal influenced public opinion in Briton during the US Civil war and prevented England siding with the south.
但他首先给一位文稿代理人回复了电话。在看到众多杂志对他的描写之后，他们建议他写本书。
But first he responded to a call which had come following those magazine profiles - from a literary agent suggesting he write a book.
她走访了位于阿伯塔巴德的巴基斯坦军事学院，生动地描写了这个学校是怎样“不遗余力的追求卓越的”。
She visited Pakistan's military academy at Abbottabad, and writes glowingly of how the institution "spares nothing in its quest for excellence."
1990年以来，世界经历了几个有趣的时期，发生的事件并不波澜壮阔，涉及的人物也不是久远的古人，因此不适宜做戏剧性的描写。
The world has been through interesting times since 1990, but the events and characters are less striking and too recent to make for a rich dramatic narrative.
我追溯且彻底研究了这段繁荣，有一本描写此内容的书。
I went back and studied this boom rather extensively by — there's one book written about it.
书中描写的这段让人难忘的情节叙述了1940年的夏天法国在经历痛苦时人们所表现出来的疯狂与残忍。
It is an unforgettable moment that seems to sum up all the madness of France’s panic in the summer of 1940.
我翻了翻这本书，选了几段描写爱情和功夫打斗的内容看。
I flipped through the book and selectively read the passages about romance and kung fu fighting.
在1909年的《路标》这一重要的自省之作中，布尔加科夫描述了俄罗斯知识界的可悲现状，描写了他们对祖国人民的倨傲，以及他们的涣散与低俗。
In "Vekhi", an important self-reflecting book written in 1909, Sergei Bulgakov describes the sorry state of the intelligentsia, its conceit towards its own people, its lack of discipline and decency.
但是根据剧本的描写，这个角色以一个犯罪同谋的角度来看，又似乎过于冷静了。
But as written, the character seems too level-headed to be a conspirator to such a crime.
这本书是罗布先生描写意大利的第三部作品。罗布先生这本书精雕细琢，有不少亮点，其中之一是展示了——那不勒斯宏伟建筑整齐有序、端庄高雅，而城市本身却从不具备这蕴涵的品质。
Among the strengths of Mr Robb's finely crafted book, his third work on Italy, is his showing that there never was a time when it was as orderly and decorous as its grand architecture implies.
这样描写很重要，因为这解释了为什么苏格拉底喜欢使用助产式来比喻哲学问题。他通过向别人提出问题，而不是自己回答问题来获得事物真相。
This is important, for midwifery forms the great metaphor Socrates uses to explain his method of extracting truth through questioning others, rather than giving birth to it himself.
《不得不成为的狗》:这本故事书回忆了在加拿大大草原上度过的有趣而又心酸的童年时代，故事描写细腻。
“The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be.” This is a hilarious, poignant and exceptionally well-written memoir of childhood on the Canadian prairies.
虽然作品描述了很多历险经历，但整部书节奏缓慢，其中有很长篇幅描写森林之景和玛丽娜的思绪。
Despite these adventures, the book is slow-paced with long passages about the forest and Marina’s own thoughts.
虽然作品描述了很多历险经历，但整部书节奏缓慢，其中有很长篇幅描写森林之景和玛丽娜的思绪。
Despite these adventures, the book is slow-paced with long passages about the forest and Marina's own thoughts.
舒尔曼笔触生动简练，他描绘了那个令人激动的革新时代，也对贝尔的生活和他生活的环境作了有趣的描写。
Shulman does a neat job of painting, in rapid brush strokes, a portrait of the thrilling era of innovation in which Bell lived and also of the interesting circumstances of his life.
翁普拉卡什·瓦尔·米基朗诵了描写印度穷人生活中常遭遇的不幸的诗歌。瓦尔米基那部北印度语自传《朱森：一个达利特的生活》，已被译成英文。
Omprakash Valmiki, whose Hindi autobiography, "Joothan: a Dalit's Life", has been translated into English, read poems about the routine wretchedness of the lives of poor Indians.
制片人莱斯莉-厄当说，现在这个用来描写主人公精神状态的超现实主义的镜头已经"完全不合时宜"了。
The surreal shot, which was used to show his state of mind, is now "completely inappropriate," producer Leslie Urdang said.
制片人莱斯莉-厄当说，现在这个用来描写主人公精神状态的超现实主义的镜头已经"完全不合时宜"了。
The surreal shot, which was used to show his state of mind, is now "completely inappropriate," producer Leslie Urdang said.
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