So the book can only be talking about a superficial familiarity, not a deep understanding.

所以这本书只能说肤浅的知识。

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I think there are too many men filling every corner, so the book lacks a soft feminine touch.

我认为，故事中充斥着各式各样的男性角色，这使得整本书缺乏一种细腻的女性触觉。

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I enjoyed the book and said so when I returned it.

我很喜欢这本书，归还它的时候就这么说了。

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So you can read on an iPad or a touch-screen tablet, but the e-book readers are less expensive.

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So the book is really an effort to answer what role America should play in the world.

这本书事实上是在试图,回答美国在世界这个大环境中应该扮演怎样的角色。

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Those relationships take place in the context of continual negotiations of sexual relationships, and so the book begins with that explanation that: I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.

他们之间的关系是建立在,不断协商和性关系的基础上，所以书的开头有这样一段说明：,我第一次见到迪恩时刚和我妻子分开。

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William Shawn at the New Yorker wanted him to write densely factual pieces on regional geology, archaeology and botany, so the book contains many almost indigestible encyclopedic patches.

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Card said he wrote the dialogue in 1984 based on what he was hearing children say to each other when they thought no adults were around, so the book would not have shocked the South Carolina class.

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In that novel, the eighties were not merely a discrete historical period and so the book was not a historical novel because the fictional material (love of money, excess of all kinds, fashionable drug abuse, political opportunism, the scythe of AIDS) so easily spilled beyond its temporal borders.

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