我知道现在听来这话就像卡通版的铁砧那么讽刺，不过……所以他们希望我报读专业学位，而我则想读英国文学。

I know the irony strikes with the force of a cartoon 5 anvil now, but... so they hoped that I would take a vocational degree; I wanted to study English literature.

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乔纳森·斯威夫特的《一个小小的建议》被公认为英国文学史上讽刺作品的经典。

Jonathan Swift's a Modest Proposal being generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period but also in the whole English literary history.

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乔纳森·斯威夫特的《一个小小的建议》被公认为英国文学史上讽刺作品的经典。

Jonathan Swift's a Modest Proposal being generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period but also in the whole English literary history.

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