No sooner had I entered the middle school than I began to read novel, plays, essays and so on.

我走进中学比我刚开始阅读小说、剧本、散文等等。

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No sooner had I entered the middle school than I began to read novel, plays, and essays and so on.

我刚进入中学比我开始阅读小说，戏剧、散文等等。

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I felt like something was lost in my life, because I was too busy and did not have time to read novel books.

我觉得我的生活缺失了一些东西，因为我太忙了，没有时间去看小说。

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And today I'm going to suggest two--actually, well, yes two additional contexts that we can look to, to read the novel.

今天我想为你们提供两种参考方案，事实上是,两种额外理解小说语境的方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

One kind of question, then, I was raising is: what context do you use to read any novel?

我所提出的一类问题是：,你一般采用什么语境去理解小说？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I don't know what that dream we're going to dream together is when we read that novel. I don't know what that'll be.

我不知道当我们一起读那部小说的时候,我们将会一起做个什么样的梦，我不知道。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

To read the above passage in isolation is to perhaps glean from it uncertainty on the part of Fellowes about the good or bad of disruptive economic change, but to read the novel in full is to see that Fellowes sides with Schumpeter.

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Fewer than 50% of UK children aged eight to 17 read a novel outside class every month, research suggests.

BBC: Novels read monthly by 'less than one in two children'

The novel demands to be read like this, as a fable, for while it roots around in the stench and swill of life, it is at the same time a highly figurative tale about truth versus fact, about meaning, and the power of language both to carry and destroy it.

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