It's Dickens in part, that stereotype of old London, of the urban working class, but it's not just Dickens. Moby Dick is here too.

其中有狄更斯出现，有对于伦敦及当地工人阶级的,刻板印象，不仅仅是狄更斯的影子，还有《白鲸记》

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So you, like, read Emerson, Melville - "Moby Dick", stuff like that.

所以，那个阶段，你能读到爱默生，还有《大白鲸》的作者梅尔维尔。

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