In creating a character who is both witty and psychopathic, Mr Adiga has produced a hero almost as memorable as Pip, proving himself the Charles Dickens of the call-centre generation.

在创造一个既聪明又有些心理问题的角色过程中，阿蒂加塑造出了一个几乎和皮普一样令人难忘的角色。这也证明他自己是呼叫中心一代人中的查尔•斯狄更斯。

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His protagonist, Omar Yussef, is almost an anti-hero: a creaky ex-alcoholic schoolteacher with painful joints and faltering moral courage.

小说中的主人公奥马尔•尤塞夫(Omar Yussef)几乎就是一位平凡的主角：他是一位教师，思想陈旧、曾一度酗酒成性、饱受关节疼痛的折磨、做事缺乏勇气。

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Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps is almost a perfect sports hero for our time.

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The fingers are those of a tortured hero with a divided, almost schizoid psyche -- Jimmy, in the 1978 original, played by Harvey Keitel, and now Thom, played phenomenally well by Romain Duris.

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Captain Steven Gerrard was once more revelling in central midfield, and he almost set up Jermain Defoe with a precise lofted pass that the hat-trick hero of Friday's 4-0 win against Bulgaria fired well off target.

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