A searingly honest and moving account by a writer who has witnessed her mother's slide into dementia.

作者亲眼目睹母亲陷入老年痴呆，极其诚实地讲述了一个震撼人心的动人故事。

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A magnum opus is the greatest or most important work produced by a writer, artist, musician, or academic.

作家，艺术家，音乐家亦或学术界学者，一部大部头的作品也许是他最伟大或者最重要的成果。(和后面的冗长好像有些吻合)。

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In other words, no journal-keeping by a writer who harbors any sort of ambition is going to be entirely innocent.

换句话说，一位充满野心的作家所保留的日记，里面的内容都不可能清白得如同白纸一张。

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In the beginning of his book there is a poem by Scottish writer Rubber Lewis Stevenson.

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It was best exemplified by a writer in Mississippi named Henry Hughes.

密西西比的亨利·休斯,对此有详细的解释

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He had just come from writing the music for a number of masks by the celebrated playwright and mask-writer Ben Johnson.

他刚刚为著名的剧作家和面具作者本约翰,写的《面具》作了很多曲。

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He tried to help them in any way he could, offering to render the sorts of little services one might expect from a secretary or a valet rather than a colleague, for which he was reproached by a writer of his own generation, who called him obsequious and servile.

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The term itself was supposedly coined by a British writer in 1994 and copped by ad agency Euro RSCG Worldwide in a recent report on men.

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Why was a long and semi-scholarly study by a magazine writer the catalyst for a social change that might have got under way years before?

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