即使她的批评者也承认，这本书的巨大影响使一代读者不再害怕厚书和复杂的情节。

And that is on top of the impact, even her critics acknowledge, of inspiring a generation of obsessive readers unafraid of fat books and complex plots.

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复杂的情节，正剧风格的架构，加上大段大段的咏叹调，这一切使得这些歌剧难以编排。

The convoluted plots and the conventions of the opera seria style, with their long da capo (repeat) arias, were thought to make them unperformable.

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漂亮的爱尔兰家庭女教师和冷若冰霜的条顿金发美女又给本以复杂的情节增添了许多趣味。

A pretty Irish governess and a glacial Teutonic blonde all add merrily to the mix.

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One thinks of D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, for example, in which the central character, Paul Morel, is crippled by an Oedipus complex that he can't master and the difficulties and complications of the plot are of this kind.

拿D。H。劳伦斯的《儿子与情人》来说，里面的核心人物保罗，被自己不能控制的俄狄浦斯情节困扰,复杂多变的情节也就由此展开。

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