He knew he had arrived when he was shortlisted for the Booker prize.
被列入布克小说作品奖决选名单后,他知道自己成功了。
How would the great man have reacted to winning the Booker?
这位伟大的作家对获得布克奖究竟会作何感想?
Amelia Turner. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize last year.
阿米莉亚·特纳,去年入围布克奖。
I think she has been shortlisted for the Booker prize this year.
我想她已经被列入今年“布克奖”的终选名单了。
She's a great author. I think she has been shortlisted for the Booker prize this year.
她是一位伟大的作家。我想她已经被列入今年“布克奖”的终选名单了。
Five times she made the shortlist for the Booker, Britain’s most famous book award, but never won.
她五次获得英国著名书籍奖提名,但一无所获。
Midnight's Children is his masterpiece, which brings him the Booker Prize and international fame.
《午夜的孩子》是他的主要作品,不仅为他赢取了布克奖,还给他带来了国际声誉。
He side of the Booker slipped away, he went to the circus to paint himself on the background, the clown makeup.
他一旁的布克悄悄溜走了,他来到了马戏团的后台,给自己画上了小丑的妆。
"Why are you helping Katie? Don't quibble about Mr. Booker!" the headmaster doesn't want to hear the Booker explanation.
“为什么你要帮凯蒂呢?布克先生,不要狡辩了!”校长并不想继续听布克的解释。
Initially the Man group, which took over sponsorship of the Booker, wanted to open the prize to Americans, which provoked some concern.
从布克公司手里接过赞助权的曼氏财团一开始的打算是把该奖项的颁发对象定为美国人,但这惹起一些争议。
Literary heavyweights AS Byatt and JM Coetzee were today named on this year's longlist for the Booker prize – which also features a first-time writer purporting to be Tarzan's chimpanzee.
本年度的布克奖提名名单于今天公之于众,文学界重量级人物如拜阿特(ASByatt)和库切(JM Coetzee)均榜上有名。 一同入围的还有一位号称是“‘泰山’的黑猩猩”的新人作家。
The competition for the Booker, which was first awarded in 1969, has been much more intense in recent years after the prize was opened to any novel written in English and published in Britain.
布克奖设立于1969年,在该奖开始面向所有在英国出版的英语小说后,其角逐近年来尤为激烈。
Immersed in the joy of the Booker towards the start of the ugly faces the audience, this behavior immediately ushered in more applause and laughter, Booker found that his father had been amused!
沉浸在欢乐中的布克朝着观众做起了难看的鬼脸,这个行为立刻迎来了更多的掌声和欢笑,布克发现,自己的父亲竟然被逗笑了!
“The Line of Beauty”, his 2004 Man Booker prize-winner, dealt with the same themes in Thatcherite Britain.
他的2004年“布克奖”获奖作品《美丽曲线》,以撒切尔时代的英国为时代背景探讨了同样的主题。
The novel won the 1988 Booker prize and was filmed in 1997 with Cate Blanchett and Ralph Fiennes.
这部小说获得了1988年的布克奖,并于1997年拍摄成由凯特·布兰切特和拉尔夫·费恩斯主演的电影。
On July 10th an international readers' poll voted "Midnight's Children" the best novel ever to win the Man Booker prize, which celebrates its 40th birthday this year.
在7月10号这天,根据全球的读者投票,《午夜之子》被评选为自布克奖设立40年以来的最佳获奖小说。
While walking, she is often on the phone checking in with her booker for updates to her packed schedule.
她常常一边走路一边打电话,和她的雇主确认她繁忙的时间表是否有新的变化。
Her novel, the Blind Assassin, won the 2000 Booker Prize.
她的小说《盲刺客》荣获了2000年的布克奖。
Of course. The British love literary lists and the fights they provoke, so much so that they divide candidates for the Man Booker Prize into shortlist books and longlist books.
当然,英国人喜欢文学作品名单和他们所引起的争执,以至于他们把布克奖的候选人划分为短单书和长单书。
HOWARD JACOBSON admits that he has been practising his acceptance speech for the Man Booker prize since he published his first novel, in 1983.
霍华德·雅各布森自认自从他的的首部小说1983年问世至今,他就一直在练习布克奖的获奖词。
This week, I went to Memphis, Tennessee, where I spoke to the graduating class of Booker T. Washington High School.
本周,我去了田纳西州的孟菲斯市,在那里我向布克·华盛顿高中的毕业班同学们发表了演说。
A devoted post-modernist, who plays with structure as easily as words, his work has twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker prize.
他是不折不扣的后现代主义者,总能玩弄结构和文字于股掌之间,他的作品两次获得曼布克奖提名。
Mr Booker says the extra slipperiness cuts fuel consumption by around 1%, so that the coating treatment pays for itself within a few months.
布克说,增加飞机的光滑度可以降低1%左右的油耗,因此飞机涂装后几个月之内就能获得回报。
But this commencement was especially hopeful - because of just how much the kids at Booker T. Washington High School had overcome.
但这场毕业典礼却尤其充满了希望——因为这是布克·华盛顿高中的同学们克服了那么多的困难才赢得的!
But this commencement was especially hopeful - because of just how much the kids at Booker T. Washington High School had overcome.
但这场毕业典礼却尤其充满了希望——因为这是布克·华盛顿高中的同学们克服了那么多的困难才赢得的!
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