该小说的背景是罗马时期。

The novel is set in the Roman period.

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你可以感受到这部小说的背景故事，嗯还有吗？

You can feel that back story to the novel. Yeah. What else?

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请你放心，这篇小说的背景，每一个细节都是千真万确。

I assure you the background of the novel is authentic to the last detail.

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So, what I want to do now is, with that background in mind, I want to take this up and just open up the first few pages.

所以我想要做的事，记着这个背景，我想要打开几页小说。

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You can feel that back story to the novel. Yeah. What else?

你可以感受到这部小说的背景故事，嗯还有吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选