There are several reasons for this.Some are as old as Charles Dickens (or perhaps even Homer).people still want to have something to talk about with their friends.
若干原因造就了这种局面:有些原因早在查尔斯·狄更斯时代、或许更早的荷马时代就存在了:人们还是需要一些谈资与朋友分享。
Reznikoff, who has about 115 hair samples in his collection -- including locks from Abraham Lincoln, Marilyn Monroe and Charles Dickens -- noted that Beethoven has wide appeal.
报道说,列兹尼科夫共收藏了115例名人头发标本,其中包括美国前总统林肯、好莱坞影星梦露和英国着名作家狄更斯等人的头发。
A century and a half ago, Charles Dickens walked the streets of young America and fumed to see his novels in cheap pirate versions.
一个半世纪以前,狄更斯在年青的美国大街上走,看到他的小说被盗版贱卖,也相当气愤。
As Charles Dickens wrote in Great Expectations, 「I find the truth to be that an opening won「t come to one, but one must go to it」.
狄更斯在其名着《远大前程》里写道,「我发现了一个真理,机会不会掉到我们身上,我们必须去寻找机会」(ifind the truthtobethatanopeningwon 」 tcometoone,butonemustgotoit .)。
Charles Dickens could have been a noble, 「Sir Charles」 -he could have taken a title if he had wanted it.
查尔斯·狄更斯可能已经成了一个贵族,「查尔斯爵士」,如果他乐意,大可以随心所欲地弄到尊称。
In creating a character who is both witty and psychopathic, Mr Adiga has produced a hero almost as memorable as Pip, proving himself the Charles Dickens of the call-centre generation.
在创造一个既聪明又有些心理问题的角色过程中,阿蒂加塑造出了一个几乎和皮普一样令人难忘的角色。这也证明他自己是呼叫中心一代人中的查尔?斯狄更斯。
Charles Dickens would have enjoyed their priggishness: they supported the 「Society for the Suppression of Vice」 that snooped on the pleasures of the poor.
查尔斯·狄更斯会很喜欢他们的自命不凡:窥探骚扰穷人享乐的「压制邪恶协会」正是他们资助的。
The great English novelist Charles Dickens used exactly the same technique.
伟大的英语小说家查尔斯·狄更斯用的也正是同一手法。
The great English novelist Charles Dickens used exactly the same technique. Many of his works, like Oliver Twist, although later published as complete novels, were originally serialised.
伟大的英语小说家查尔斯·狄更斯用的也正是同一手法。很多他的作品,比如雾都孤儿,尽管后来都结集出版但是最早都是连载的。
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.」
彼得?阿克罗伊德是小说家、评论家暨查尔斯?狄更斯和托马斯?莫尔爵士的传记作者,正如他在新书中的断言:「英国人比别人看见更多的鬼魂。」
Anyway, instead of praising Scrooge for his principled stand against the welfare state, Charles Dickens makes him out to be some kind of bad guy. How leftist is that?
不管怎么说,查尔斯·狄更斯没有赞扬克鲁奇但对福利国家的原则立场,他将克鲁奇写成某种坏人。这种写法到底有多么左?