He says he thinks that Dostoevsky isn't a very popular author now and that people like to read Tolstoy more.
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Moore is quoting here in that phrase "business documents and school-books," as she tells us, from Tolstoy, a prose writer.
穆尔在那个短语里引用了这句,“商业文书和教科书“,正如她告诉我们的,引用来自托尔斯泰,俄国小说家。
She will not only include Tolstoy's prose, she will not even discriminate against business documents and school books.
她不会仅仅引用托尔斯泰的诗句,甚至不会在商业文书和教科书之间进行区分。
Tolstoy draws a highly realistic and believable portrait of somebody who is surprised to discover that he's mortal.
托尔斯泰刻画了一个高度真实可信的,一个对自己的必死感到惊讶的人的形象。
It even does wonders for Tolstoy when Tolstoy gets on So you get on Oprah's Book Club. Oprah asks for the proofs for your novel She takes them. She says, "This is great, but you know what?
当托尔斯泰的书进了书友会,所以你进入了书友会,奥普拉要预读你的小说,她拿到书,说,“很不错,但知道吗?
I mention the names of Tolstoy Henry James and perhaps the greatest of all Jane Austen if you want to know a novelist who employs this great skill of judgment discrimination and practical reason.
我必需提到托尔斯泰,亨利?詹姆斯或者,还有最伟大的珍?奥斯汀,以上是如果你们想知道,哪一位作家援用这种伟大的判断,识别力与实际推理技能的话。
The people in the Tolstoy story seem to have put facts of mortality out of their mind.
托尔斯泰小说中的人物似乎,把人必有一死的事实置诸脑外。
But I also take it that Tolstoy means to be putting forward more than just a claim that there could be such a person.
但我也认为托尔斯泰是认为真有其人,而不只是声称世界上有这样一种人。
But she goes further than Tolstoy in her commitment to the seemingly non-poetic.
但是她比托尔斯泰挖掘的更深,使其显得不那么诗意了。
That was certainly the point that Tolstoy was trying to get us to see.
那也正是托尔斯泰,想要我们明白的一点。
That's a stronger claim, though I think it's not the sort of claim that's unique to Tolstoy, that all of us or most of us or many of us at the fundamental level don't really believe that we're going to die.
这个说法就比较有力了,虽然我觉得这不是托尔斯泰独有的看法,声称我们当中全部或大部分,从某种根本程度上不相信自己会死。
You've read at this point, long since, Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilych.
你们很久以前就读到过这个观点,托尔斯泰的Ivan,Ilych之死。
Tolstoy's Ivan Ilyich is surprised to discover that he's going to die.
托尔斯泰笔下的Ivan,Ilyich发现自己要死时。
what Tolstoy is trying to convince us of, what he's trying to argue, by illustrating the claim, I take it, that Tolstoy is making, is that most of us are actually in Ivan Ilyich's boat.
托尔斯泰试图通过这个故事,阐述给我们,要说服我们相信的东西,我认为他要说的是,我们中大多数人都像Ivan,Ilyich一样。
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