It's a pretty dreadful book that Tommy took to read the boys in school.

汤米带到学校里来给同学们念过的这本书够糟糕的。

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If the first review of a book is dreadful, an author needs at least three good ones to change that first impression.

如果第一篇书评很糟糕，作者起码还要得到三篇书评的夸赞，才能扭转人们的第一印象。

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The three glories of the book are the Judge, the landscape, and (dreadful to say this) the slaughters, which are aesthetically distanced by McCarthy in a number of complex ways.

这本书中的三个令人赞叹的方面是法官这个人物、景色描写和（说起来令人畏惧的）杀戮场面，麦卡锡通过大量的综合手段对这三个方面进行了具有美学意义的铺陈。

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