或者你决意要完成一部小说，那么你可以再每周工作的几次下午茶时间，在笔记本上起早你小说的梗概。

Or maybe you’re dead-set on finishing a novel, so you dedicate three of your coffee breaks at work each week to scribbling a few passages into a notebook.

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你看过她新出的小说了吗？

Have you read her new novel?

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对一部小说过多的剖析可能会影响你对它的欣赏。

Your enjoyment of a novel can suffer from too much analysis and dissection.

《牛津词典》

One kind of question, then, I was raising is: what context do you use to read any novel?

我所提出的一类问题是：,你一般采用什么语境去理解小说？

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Now let me just say in a technical way: if you decide to volunteer to nominate a novel, you'll get no extra credit.

从实际角度讲：,如果你自愿推荐一部小说，你不会得到额外的学分。

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Crushing your computer, or whatever it is that you do as you write the great American novel.

砸碎电脑，随便你想怎样,当你创作最伟大的美国小说时。

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