大卫·坎皮斯一生的时间都在贬低英国的橄榄球队，而这个国家却给了他如此殊荣，他承认自己也感到很奇怪。
He admitted he felt very strange to be honored by a country whose rugby team he has spent a lifetime rubbishing.
看来，诺贝尔评审委员会这次有一个大胆的期望，那就是欧巴马能够最终解决所有问题，从而证明自己不负如此殊荣！
The Nobel committee, it seems, had the audacity to hope that he'll eventually produce a record worthy of its prize.
这部最新作品所获的殊荣实际上也就是对他四部小说的成就给予了同样的肯定，因为它与作家的前三部小说有着如此之多的共鸣。
The award is as much recognition of that ground-breaking quartet as of the new book, which has so many echoes of its forerunners.
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