Chapman's remarkable preface if written by a modern author would at once damn his book.

查普曼那篇出色的序文要是换一位现代作者来写，顿时就会毁了他的书。

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Zhang Ailing the modern author ever had three hates, one of which was the Red Chamber to be further continued — a painful regret prevailed among the readers since its publication.

现代作家张爱玲有三恨，其中之一就红楼未完，代表了作品问世以来广大读者的普遍痛憾心理。

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Looking at Tasha Tudor, one would never know that she is a part of the modern world, let alone a world-famous, award-winning children's book author and illustrator.

仅仅看着塔莎奶奶，你永远也不会意识到她是现代世界的一部分，更不会想到她是一名举世闻名备受赞誉的少儿图书作者与插画家。

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The women of modern Turkey, the author argues, owe their relative emancipation to Ataturk's modernising and secularising reforms.

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Michael Morpurgo, author of modern classics such as Private Peaceful, told BBC News he would not go into schools unless the rules were changed.

BBC: School safety 'insult' to Pullman

The success of the latter is what transformed him into a genuine publishing phenomenon, for anyone who can fascinate the masses with a book about the birth of modern geology is truly an author with the magic touch.

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