Franzen doesn't chop the world up that way.
弗兰岑并不把世界这样分割开来。
Franzen writes with perfectly balanced fluency.
《纯度》的写作完美、平衡而流畅。
One of the humans admiring them is Jonathan Franzen.
观光客中有一个人就是乔纳森•弗兰岑。
If they could talk, the otters would tell Franzen to man up, chill out and have a sea urchin.
如果那些海獭会说话，他们就会劝弗兰岑振作起来，冷静下来，去尝尝海胆。
Most people now seem to have the impression that Franzen turned down Oprah, not the other way round.
现在，似乎大多数人都认为是弗兰岑拒绝了奥普拉，而不是奥普拉拒绝了弗兰岑。
The way Franzen thinks about it is that books can do things, socially useful things, that other media can't.
关于这一点，弗兰岑认为书能替我们做些事情，一些其他媒介无法做到的有助于社会的事情。
It's saying, "I read the last Jonathan Franzen book and fell asleep six times, so I'm not going to read this one."
又如，“我读了乔纳森·弗兰奇的最后一本书，睡着了6次，所以我不会再读这本书了。”
The other thing that strikes you is the contrast between Franzen the writer and person and Franzen the public figure.
给我们留下深刻印象的第二件事即，做为作家和个人的弗兰岑与作为公众人物的弗兰岑之间的显著差别。
"If those books get them into reading, that has great repercussions for making them smarter," Dr. McGill-Franzen said.
“如果那些书能让她们喜欢阅读，伟大的反响能让她们变的更聪明，”麦吉尔·弗兰岑博士说。
Of Joey's imperturbable, long-suffering girlfriend, Connie, Franzen writes that "she had the metabolism of a fish in winter."
至于裘伊那冷静坚忍的女友康尼，弗兰岑是这样写的，“她像一只冬天的鱼，安静冷静。”
By Jonathan Franzen. Maybe at first, you don't like this book much, as the author seems to dislike and make fun of the main characters.
作者乔纳森·弗兰岑，也许起初你不太喜欢这本书，因为作者似乎不太喜欢主要角色，在故意嘲弄他们。
There was extra pressure on Franzen this time, plus an additional layer of self-consciousness left over from the backlash to his success.
这次除了从他成功的余波中保留下来的自觉意识外，弗兰岑还面临更大的压力。
After he was done promoting the book, Franzen spent a year sifting through material he'd discarded from it, to see if he could recycle anything.
对这书的宣传工作结束后，弗兰岑花了一年时间去筛选之前未写进书中的材料，看能否再回收利用一些。
"What that said to me was that there is a kid culture and a media culture that transcends what we think kids should be reading," Dr. McGill-Franzen said.
“我认为这里存在着孩子文化和媒体文化，他们超越了我们认为孩子应该读什么。”麦吉尔弗兰岑博士说。
If freedom is all about giving up freedom by committing to things - people, causes, beliefs, life - what Franzen has committed to is not life but art.
假如《自由》是一本提倡放弃自由，另去专注的书——专注人，事业，信仰和生活——那么弗兰岑所专注的不是生活而是艺术。
Shields doesn't present his remarks as a criticism of writers-the name he mentions is Jonathan franzen-pursuing the tradition of the long realistic novel.
席尔兹说这番话的用意并非批判作者——他提到的作者是乔纳森·弗兰岑——追求长篇现实主义小说的传统。
This idea may earn Franzen another all-American kicking - "Oprah-Hating Writer Now Says Freedom Overrated!" - but it is not only true; it is also important.
这一思想也许会再次使美国人齐心协力，给弗兰岑狠狠一“踢”——反对奥普拉的作家现在又说对《自由》评价过高——但弗兰岑的思想不仅正确而且重要。
Franzen is very conscious that people are freer than ever — that word again — to spend their time and attention being entertained by things that aren't books.
弗兰岑十分清楚人们比以往更加自由——又说到自由了——他们的时间和精力往往消耗在其他娱乐而非书本上。
Birds don't take vacations, and neither does he. "I'm already losing sleep," Franzen says, "trying to figure out how to lock myself inside a big novel again."
鸟类并不给自己放假，他也是这样。“我已经失眠了一阵子，我正努力构思另一部长篇小说，再次让自己去忘我地工作。”
Franzen isn't the richest or most famous living American novelist, but you could argue - I would argue - that he is the most ambitious and also one of the best.
在当前美国小说家中，弗兰岑既不是最富有的也不是最有名的，但你可以争辩——我会的——他是最有抱负，也是美国最好的小说家之一。
Two American writers, Tom Wolfe and Jonathan Franzen, each published a voluminous novel recently in response to their respective literary "manifestos" calling for "social novels".
弗兰岑，近期都发表了“文学宣言”，呼吁久违于美国文坛的社会小说，而后又“现身说法”，各自推出了长篇小说“范本”。
"One of the ways of surrendering freedom is to actually have convictions," Franzen says. "And a way of further surrendering freedom is to spend quite a bit of time acting on those convictions."
“放弃自由的方法之一是去树立一种信念，”弗兰岑说，“而更进一步放弃自由的方法便是花点时间去实践这一信念。”
"One of the ways of surrendering freedom is to actually have convictions," Franzen says. "And a way of further surrendering freedom is to spend quite a bit of time acting on those convictions."
“放弃自由的方法之一是去树立一种信念，”弗兰岑说，“而更进一步放弃自由的方法便是花点时间去实践这一信念。”
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