Forget the paltry crown of laurel placed atop the heads of great writers in the classical tradition.

忘记那些,伟大作家戴的没价值的传统桂冠。

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one of his kind of funnier novels. Great, great author.

他的一部比较搞笑的小说。非常非常伟大的作家。

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The great Milton, a grave author, brings in Adam thus speaking to Eve in Paradise Lost , "Oh, fairest of creation, last and best of all God's works."

伟大的弥尔顿，严肃的作家，在《失乐园》中,让亚当对夏娃如是说，“哦，最美丽的生物，上帝最后却是最好的作品“

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But Eudora Welty was once asked why Southerners can be such great writers, or such good storytellers and she was a wonderful storyteller.

但有一次她被问到,为什么南方总是出伟大的作家,或者是杰出的小说家,她自己就是个很出色的小说家

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But like, someone has to tell us that Shakespeare was this great writer.

但必须有人教导我们,莎士比亚是位伟大的作家。

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I mention the names of Tolstoy Henry James and perhaps the greatest of all Jane Austen if you want to know a novelist who employs this great skill of judgment discrimination and practical reason.

我必需提到托尔斯泰,亨利？詹姆斯或者,还有最伟大的珍？奥斯汀,以上是如果你们想知道,哪一位作家援用这种伟大的判断,识别力与实际推理技能的话。

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Or as Walker Percy, the great Southern writer, was once asked he was asked, in effect, "Why do Southerners have such long memories?

或者正如沃克·泊西,这个伟大的南方作家,曾被问到,他被问到,老实说,"为什么南方人的记忆如此刻骨铭心

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