While Mann's subject remained Germany, Nabokov's American masterpiece, "Lolita", is a love-letter to the country in all its plastic kitsch.

当马恩的项目还在针对德国时，纳博科夫的美国名著《洛丽塔》是用它所有不自然的媚俗写成的致美国的一封情书。

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Creating a fine painting or sculpture requires time, and so does creating a software masterpiece. It takes time to get the code right and shape its final appearance.

创作一个好的油画或雕刻品需要时间，软件杰作也是如此，需要花费大量的时间来正确编码并对最终外观给予修饰。

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Written in short lengths for newspaper serialization, the autobiography is not a literary masterpiece, but it is the more impressive because of the commonplaceness of much of its material.

自传以短篇在报纸连载，不是文学杰作，但因其大部材料的寻常却更为感人。

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Laura Gibson's new album, Beasts of Seasons, is nothing short of a masterpiece, both for its flawless and often haunting execution and for its inspired statements on the human experience.

NPR: First Listen: Laura Gibson's 'Beasts Of Seasons'

"Bruges-La-Morte" ascends to the status of a masterpiece on the beauty of its prose (especially if you can read it in the French) as well as the refinement of its sensibility and the inherent drama of its plot.

WSJ: Georges Rodenbach | Bruges-La-Morte | Incarnating the World Within | Masterpiece by James Gardner

The result is a messy masterpiece, a portrait of turbulent transition, that constantly risks falling on its face but almost never does.

ECONOMIST: Fantasy with a moral