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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That happened not too long ago, but it was just a really fantastic display of all his work.

那是不久前的事情，但它真的极好地展示了他所有的作品。

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These are all my proofs to support all the things that I've already told you, but I'm not going to bother proving it, it would take too long.

以上是我给大家所讲的论据,虽然我不介意给大家论证一下,但是那会占用太多时间

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