If over-written, they can become too subtle or cute.

如果书写过度，他们会变得过于难以捉摸。

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If I've caused any offence over something I have written, I will happily apologize.

如果我所写的东西冒犯了他人，我将很乐意道歉。

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He's written a few overtly political lyrics over the years.

他几年来写了几篇政治性明显的歌词。

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Barth wrote a famous essay just the year before these stories came out all in one volume. They had been written over a series of years, got a lot of exposure--called "The Literature of Exhaustion."

在写完这一卷故事的前一年,巴斯写了一篇著名的论文，在60年代，叫《枯竭的文学》

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I think, a collection of epic poems written in Sanskrit that goes back-- it was actually written over a course of 1,000 years and it was completed in the fourth century.

这是本用梵文编著的史诗作品集,可以追溯到...,事实上这本作品的创作时间历时近千年,最终完稿于公元四世纪

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As the essays move chronologically--they were written over a period of time--as the essays that were written near Lolita come into the book, that word appears, also, describing various things.

正如随笔是按时间顺序走向的，它们也是,有时间顺序的，随笔写的时候Lolita刚刚发表，那个字出现了，描绘了很多事情。

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Not the least of his achievement is to make the over-written (and over-illustrated) subject of fascism fresh.

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Some of her sentences can seem over-written.

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Labour plans to prioritise spending on English language teaching for recent immigrants over non-essential written translation materials.

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