That original Kindle, code-named "Fiona" after a character in Neal Stephenson's futuristic novel The Diamond Age, was finally ready to go in the fall of 2007.

最初的 Kindle 以尼尔·斯蒂芬森的科幻小说《钻石时代》中的一个人物命名，代号为“菲奥娜”，终于准备在2007年秋季上市。

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By opening a novel, I can leave behind my burdens and enter into a wonderful and mysterious world where I am now a new character.

打开一本小说，我就可以放下负担，进入一个奇妙而神秘的世界，在那里我现在是一个新的人物。

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Her acquaintance with a little boy on a train provided the inspiration for the description of the main character in her novel.

与一个小男孩在火车上的相识给她描绘小说主人公带来了灵感。

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The novel re-visits the character of Robert Langdon, the Harvard University professor from Brown's first two books.

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And yet, you like him anyway, and I think that's the power of the novel, and that's why I think he's such a character.

但是，你还是会喜欢他，我想那就是这部小说的力量，那就是为什么我认为他是个很有趣的角色。

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She explains that not only is her character seen or heard in just about every scene of the film, but also there was the original novel's worldwide legion of fans to consider.

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He said casting historical and political figures, who are known to the audience, is different from putting a face to a character from a novel.

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He is fictional, the character in a novel, and the narrator is in fact his creator, Karen Eiffel (Emma Thompson), who is trying to find a way to kill him off.

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" That's Bimini, summed up by a character in Hemingway's novel "Islands in the Stream.

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