Formerly a tailor by trade, Can Xue only began to write fiction seriously in 1983.

在写作之前，残雪是一个裁缝。 1983年，她开始认真创造小说。

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From the outset, Flynt and I wanted to write an entertaining book that would be taken seriously.

从一开始，弗林特和我就想写一本能被认真对待的娱乐读物。

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Men, she wrote, don't take women who write about these topics altogether seriously.

男人们，她写道，并不把写作这些题材的女作家当一回事。

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And when she started to write seriously about movies, much later, it was her passion for the high-art canon that helped set her bearings.

NEWYORKER: What She Said

In short, I wanted to write a book that took the issue of design seriously and proposed a scientifically credible way forward.

FORBES: Evolution and Embodied Physiology

"There is a risk that introducing a border will reduce trade, and this would impact much more seriously on the Scottish economy than on the economy of the rest of the UK, " write Swales and McGregor.

BBC: Alex Salmond and David Cameron