You have to wait for the speaker to deliver quite a chunk of language before you then put it into the second language, which puts your short-term memory under intense stress.

你必须等说话者传递完大量的语言信息之后才能把它们翻译成第二种语言，这会让你的短期记忆承受巨大的压力。

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But there's more, and this is why novels are long: - not too long, not too short, but of a certain length — of a certain magnitude, as Aristotle puts it.

但是当然还有很多别的东西，要不这本书也不会那么长：，不是太长，但也不短，刚刚好能说明清楚问题的长度-，亚里士多德这么评价。

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So much of that short stuff that you see in The New Yorker is just a comic idea that some writer gets and puts down.

你在这上面看到的很多短篇只是那些作家无心插柳，有形无神的作品。

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But there's more, and this is why novels are long: - not too long, not too short, but of a certain length-- of a certain magnitude, as Aristotle puts it.

但是当然还有很多别的东西，要不这本书也不会那么长：,不是太长，但也不短，刚刚好能说明清楚问题的长度-,亚里士多德这么评价。

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