但这确实在西蒙·马维尔的第八本小说《玻璃屋》中出现了,其创作灵感源自伫立在布尔诺市的图根哈特别墅,描述了捷克历时60年的风风雨雨。
But this is the case in Simon Mawer's eighth work of fiction, "the Glass Room", which is inspired by the Tugendhat Villa in Brno and spans 60 years of Czechoslovakia's turbulent history.
不过我们必须承认,如果要重新嫁接德贝维尔这个急需更新复苏的名字,斯托克这户人家倒是一根上好的砧木。
Yet it must be admitted that this family formed a very good stock whereon to regraft a name which sadly wanted such renovation.
在克尼维尔的飞车生涯中,他最终能登上吉尼斯记录是用他35根断骨换来的;他的身上布满了嘎嘎作响的别针与金属板,而且有人说他本该因肺部纤维症而死在自己的床上,这听起来实在荒谬。
Over his career, his 35 broken bones made the Guinness Book of Records; his body rattled with pins and plates, and it seemed preposterous that he should have died in his bed, of pulmonary fibrosis.
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