burne-jones was a selfish victorian in need of constant reassurance, but his biographer forgives him.
伯恩-琼斯是个自私的维多利亚人,时刻需要得到安慰,但他的传记作者没有求全责备。
ms singh, a london-based journalist and broadcaster, appears to think that her duty as a biographer is to write a hagiographical defence of her subject.
to be sure, there is good reason for a biographer to focus on the way his subject saw the world; we would miss much of deng「s story if we only listened to his critics.
hence lincoln」s famous 「team of rivals, 」 says biographer doris kearns goodwin.
因此传记作者多丽丝科恩斯古德温常举林肯「敌手之队」的例子。
the great occupational hazard for any biographer is falling too much under the sway of his or her subject, becoming at best a biased observer, and at worst a propagandist.
a biographer can seek corroboration elsewhere; a personal memoir does not have that advantage.
传记作家可以从别处寻找确证的事实,但一个个人的记忆没有这样的优势。
as peter ackroyd, novelist, critic and biographer of charles dickens and sir thomas more, asserts in his new book: 「the english see more ghosts than anyone else.