经历了上世纪90年代的“大文学现象”后——例如大卫•福斯特•华莱士的《可笑至极》和唐里奥的《地下世界》——小说的一切又转向了追求离奇和独特。

After the literary megafauna of the 1990s — like David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Don DeLillo's Underworld — the novels of the aughts embraced quirkiness and uniqueness.

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城堡内，曼里科和胆战心惊的莱奥诺拉正准备举行婚礼。当他听到阿祖切娜被抓的消息后，立刻召集部下准备进攻。

Inside the castle, Manrico and the frightened Leonora are preparing to be married. When news of Azucena's capture reaches him, he prepares to attack.

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一个人可能想象到的一切，可能就出现在简·科克提奥的电影里：在数秒钟之内烟囱倒塌了，一系列的事件随之发生。

One can imagine all this as it might be shown in the films of Jean Cocteau: during the few hundredths of a second that it takes for a chimney to collapse, a whole series of events would take place.

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