对旧世界的描述，很容易以批评的态度出现。

We often criticize the old world when describing it.

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这就是广告对批评的描述，尽管如此，它还引述批评家的话来衬托小说的出色之处。

That's how this advertisement represents critics, even though it also invokes critics to describe what's powerful about the novel.

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任何一个负责任的批评家都不会用活泼或惊险这样的字眼来描述《2666》。

2666 is not a novel that any responsible critic could describe with words like brisk or taut. (not like all those other brisk, taut 898-page novels.)

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That's how this advertisement represents critics, even though it also invokes critics to describe what's powerful about the novel.

这就是广告对批评的描述，尽管如此,它还引述批评家的话来衬托小说的出色之处。

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