爱玛·包法利夫人是亲切但枯燥无味的乡村医生的妻子，她渴望像通俗小说中写的一样的奢华浪漫的生活。

Emma Bovary, the wife of a kindly but dull country doctor, yearns for a life of luxury and romance that she has read about in popular novels.

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我们可以列举出值得阅读但是枯燥无味的“有史以来1000本的最伟大的小说”，其中包括好多个关于维多利亚史诗的研究和被遗忘了的最近的墨西哥前卫现代主义的瑰宝。

We could have listed the worthy but dull "1000 greatest novels of all time", including a few more recherche Victorian epics and forgotten gems of late Mexican vanguardist modernism.

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我发现他早期的小说枯燥无味。

I find his early novels as dry as dust.

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