作为一名剧作家，我很讨厌说教。

As a dramatist, I hate to moralize.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

一名剧作家被要求修改剧本。

A dramatist was asked to amend the play.

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一名剧作家被要求修改剧本。他费力地写出第一份草稿。

A dramatist was asked to amend the play.He had painfully drawn up a first draft.

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And unless, you know, you've been hired to do Pirandello's Six Characters In Search Of An Author, this is not a great thing, because you get something that is really confusing.

可能一点关系也没有,要是你拍的是皮兰德娄的荒诞名剧,《六个找寻作家的角色》,那可能是件好事,因为你得到的是一个足够混乱的结果。

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