What is culinary in one generation for example, the devices of crime fiction prior to the work of Dostoyevsky, become absolutely central.

一代人的口味,比如说，陀思妥耶夫斯基前,犯罪小说中常用的表现手法，曾经是绝对主流。

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Now from the adult point of view, this is culinary because we know that we're in the world of folklore and that in folklore everything happens three times.

现在从成人角度来看，这是烹饪小说，因为我们知道,自己在一个民间传说的世界,而且在一个民间传说中事不过三。

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So even Tony the Tow Truck, in other words, is not absolutely culinary and can be treated in ways that I hope shed some light on the reading process.

因此，即使是《托运车托尼》,也不绝对属于烹饪小说,而且能够以对理解阅读过程有帮助的方式阅读。

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