People did not object to making young children work long hours, in places that had bad air and bad light.

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One way to put it, especially in nineteenth-century realism which particularly interests Brooks, is all these characters are just madly making bad object choices.

一种解释的方式，用19世纪现实主义的观点来看,也就是布鲁克斯感兴趣的观点来看，就是小说中的人物在疯狂地做着错误的决定。

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So the arabesque of the plot, as I say, is a matter of encountering bad object choices and overcoming them: -- neatness, busyness--choices which, by the way, are on the surface temptations.

于是剧情精妙的发展，就变成做出错误选择然后克服困难了：,简洁，繁琐，选择其实就是诱惑。

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