“现在再没有作家了，”有一次他说道。

"There are no writers anymore," he said once. "only."

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但那一区域却没有作家对铁幕的倒塌及其后续进行事实或虚构的相应叙述。

But no writer from the region, in fact or fiction, has produced a matching account of the collapse of the Iron Curtain and its aftermath.

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还远没有成为作家我就碰到了得到重视的问题。

I ran up against the problem of getting taken seriously long before I became a writer.

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I never met anybody who seemed more like an author than this person, and yet he's raising the question whether there is any such thing, or in any case, the question how difficult it is to decide what it is if there is.

我从来没有遇见过比他看起来更像作家的人，现在他提出了一个问题，问无论如何，如果有这么个东西的话那么决定它是什么有多难。

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If Milton as a poet who had never really published anything significant thinks of himself as a virginal writer, then there's an important way in which Milton loses his virginity with his published version of Comus in 1637.

如果弥尔顿作为一个诗人,或者作为一个童贞情节的作家,从来没有出版过任何自我思考的重要作品，那么就有很重要的一点,弥尔顿在1637年出版的《Comus》中失去了童贞。

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