But there's more, and this is why novels are long: - not too long, not too short, but of a certain length-- of a certain magnitude, as Aristotle puts it.

但是当然还有很多别的东西，要不这本书也不会那么长：,不是太长，但也不短，刚刚好能说明清楚问题的长度-,亚里士多德这么评价。

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So if I had drawn that better it would look as if this was half of this distance, but I didn't draw it well.

如果我画得准确的话,这段应该是整段长度的一半,不过我没画好

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