That original Kindle, code-named "Fiona" after a character in Neal Stephenson's futuristic novel The Diamond Age, was finally ready to go in the fall of 2007.
最初的Kindle以尼尔·斯蒂芬森的科幻小说《钻石时代》中的一个人物命名,代号为“菲奥娜”,终于准备在2007年秋季上市。
By opening a novel, I can leave behind my burdens and enter into a wonderful and mysterious world where I am now a new character.
打开一本小说,我就可以放下负担,进入一个奇妙而神秘的世界,在那里我现在是一个新的人物。
Her acquaintance with a little boy on a train provided the inspiration for the description of the main character in her novel.
与一个小男孩在火车上的相识给她描绘小说主人公带来了灵感。
The author characterized the leading character in the novel as a dauntless hero.
作者将小说中的主人公描绘成一个大无畏的英雄。
The notion of a house, or more specifically a room, as the principal character in a novel is an odd one.
对于一幢房屋或更确切地说是一个房间的见解,作为主要角色出现在小说中是一个异数。
And, so now, when the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel.
要是现在北极的冰川融化,我的这艘录音室就会浮起来有如诺亚方舟,在这个淹没的世界里漂向远方,就像英国作家J·G·巴拉德小说里的角色一样。
The admittedly novel premise is that Holmes is a fictional character created by Watson (Kingsley) to allow him to solve crimes incognito.
原本公认的福尔摩斯小说的前提是:为了隐姓埋名解决案件,华生(Kingsley饰)创作出了虚构人物- - -福尔摩斯。
Or Howard Belsey himself, who starts out like an escapee from a Malcolm Bradbury novel but whose limitless capacity for folly keeps deepening and strangely sweetening his character.
而霍华德·贝尔西这个角色本身,一开始表现得如同马尔科姆·布拉德伯里小说中逃亡者,不过随着他那无穷尽的荒唐特质被不断深化,这个角色不可思议地变得越来越纯净,越来越赏心悦目。
And yet, you like him anyway, and I think that's the power of the novel, and that's why I think he's such a character.
但是,你还是会喜欢他,我想那就是这部小说的力量,那就是为什么我认为他是个很有趣的角色。
A few years back the novel was seriously considered by a Penguin Books editor, who wanted me to add another character; then she went on maternity leave, and that was the end of that.
几年前企鹅出版集团的一位编辑曾认真考虑过这部小说,希望我能增加一个人物,后来她休产假,这事便搁下了。
"I thought they'd gone out, like horse-cars," a character in a 1934 novel quips.
“我以为他们都已经灭绝了,像马拉车,”这是1934年的一句俏皮话。
Margaret, the main character of the novel, is a young, unworldly, bookish girl who is a bookseller in her father's shop and she loves reading stories and biographies most.
小说的主人公玛格·丽特是一个不谙世故、酷爱读书的年轻女孩,最爱读小说和传记。她在父亲的书店帮忙。
The fictional character in the acclaimed novel Du La La's Promotion shows others how to take the high road to success in a multinational company.
同名畅销小说《杜拉拉升职记》讲述了主人公在跨国公司采取积极行动得到晋升的故事。
Two clicks after launching the program, I'm asked to name my novel and come up with a one-sentence precis that includes a character, conflict and resolution.
启动程序后点击了两下,我就被要求给自己的小说取名,并用一句话概括主要内容,包括人物、冲突和解决冲突的方案。
Wole Soyinka acclaimed it as the "first novel in English which spoke from the interior of an African character rather than... As the white man would see him".
主沃尔·索因卡(WoleSoyinka)赞扬这本书是“第一部出自于非洲特色内核的英语小说,而非……从白人的角度出发。”
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters, a character is a caricature.
写小说时,作者应该创造鲜活的人,而不是角色。角色只如漫画。
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
写小说时,作者应该创造鲜活的人,而不是角色。角色只如漫画。
She called to mind a character in a novel.
她想起了小说中的一个人物。
By Santiago tough-guy character to praise the eternal values of mankind, became the real theme of the novel.
通过桑提亚哥硬汉性格来礼赞人类的永恒价值,才成为小说的真正主题。
The character of the heroine, Na Renyi (meaning "benevolence"), in the novel How Long is Forever is severely criticized by some female critics, but is warmly praised by other male critics.
《永远有多远》中的女性主人公那“仁义”的性格受到了一些女性评论家的激烈批判,却受到一些男性评论家的热情颂扬。
If you're writing a novel, and you've created a great character sketch, celebrate! If you've written your first few paragraphs, celebrate!
如果你写出了前几段,庆祝一下吧!
Therefore, in the novel "the old man and the sea", the fortitude character has become the cover of the novel.
因此,在《老人与海》中,硬汉桑提亚哥的刚毅性格,已经成为小说的表面。
Tarzan is a fictional character that first appeared in a 1912 novel, and which has been adapted on screen many times.
泰山是1912年的小说中一个虚构的人物,随后被多次改编并搬上大银屏。
I am not a serial novel in character, was the author wants to write a write up, not a lack of verses and many are not back to your role.
我不是小说连载里的人物,被作者想起来了就写一写,没想起来就好多回都不出现没有戏份。
Novel leading character "black beauty" dark horse is a horse pretty good seed from elite families living in character everyone and kind and smart like his great master.
小说主人公“黑骏马”是一匹漂亮的优种黑马,从小生活在贵族人家,性格温顺、善良,而且聪明,主人非常喜欢他。
The group portrait of "play-looker" is the common character in Lu Xun's novel, and the dual structure of "looks" and "being looked" which deduced by them is the basic subject pattern.
“看客”是鲁迅小说中常见的人物群像,由此衍生出的“看”与“被看”二元结构是其基本主题模式。
The group portrait of "play-looker" is the common character in Lu Xun's novel, and the dual structure of "looks" and "being looked" which deduced by them is the basic subject pattern.
“看客”是鲁迅小说中常见的人物群像,由此衍生出的“看”与“被看”二元结构是其基本主题模式。
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