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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You've read the short article he has in the Jewish Study Bible, but he's also written about this at great length in other places.

你们已经读到过他在《犹太读经》里的短文，在其他的地方他也写过这些伟大的语句。

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