我挑了本左拉的书，我捧着书站在那里，试图回忆起很久以前读过的一段文字。

I picked up an Emile Zola book and stood there holding it, waiting to remember something I had read long ago.

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埃米尔·左拉在1886年的小说《杰作》中描述了许多观众在首度前卫画展中见到这些画作之后的不安。

Emile Zola in his 1886 novel, "the Masterpiece", described the horror felt by much of the general public when they saw the pictures in the first avant-garde exhibitions.

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在公园里，在塞纳河边的草地上，我读着巴尔扎克、左拉、科莱特和福楼拜：他们那些描写社会和人性的小说。

In parks, and on the stretches of grass beside the Seine, I read Balzac and Zola and Colette and Flaubert:2 novels about society and the human heart.

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You can still see in the Pantheon-- the sort of secular monument but also just Napoleonic generals one after another-- you can still see bullet holes there, from the Commune, not just from World War Two, from where people were executed.

你在先贤祠,那是安葬着诸如埃米尔·左拉等,当然一个挨一个的,也放着拿破仑一世的将军们,你在那仍然可以看到弹孔,它是巴黎公社时就留下的,不仅仅只是二战时候的,人们被处决时留下的弹孔

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