What's so special about literary fiction?
文学小说有什么如此特别的地方呢？
Reading literary fiction isn't just for passing the time.
阅读文学小说不只是为了打发时间。
Reading literary fiction, he says, makes us more curious.
他说，阅读文学小说让我们变得更加好奇。
The decline in interest in literary fiction is also one of the causes identified by Leslie.
对文学小说兴趣的下降，也是莱斯利发现的原因之一。
Overall, study participants fared better on the test after reading literary fiction, versus the other three conditions.
总的来说，与其他三种情况相比，阅读文学小说后的研究参与者在测试中表现得更好。
But he added that the overall research in this area is "still in its infancy" and one key question is whether literary fiction really is better than other fiction.
但他补充说，该领域的整体研究“仍处于起步阶段”，一个关键问题是，文学小说是否真的比其他小说更好。
Reading literary fiction could also offer a way to "practice" your social skills and use them more in real life, according to another researcher not involved in the study.
另一位没有参与这项研究的研究人员表示，阅读文学小说也可以提供一种“练习”社交技能的方式，并在现实生活中更多地使用这些技能。
For the study, researchers set up a series of five experiments in which participants read either literary fiction, popular fiction, nonfiction or nothing at all before taking some standard tests.
在这项研究中，研究人员设置了一系列的5个实验，参与者在参加一些标准测试之前，要么阅读文学小说、流行小说、非小说的散文文学，要么什么都不读。
That literary fiction study, however, was also widely critiqued for its methods.
然而那项对文学小说的研究，也因其研究方法而广受批评。
VERY little literary fiction has been written about the financial crisis in Britain.And yet the City is of abiding interest.
极少文学小说谈及英国的金融危机，可是伦敦城给人永久的兴趣。
VERY little literary fiction has been written about the financial crisis in Britain. And yet the City is of abiding interest.
极少文学小说谈及英国的金融危机，可是伦敦城给人永久的兴趣。
It's a similar finding to a widely reported 2013 study that claimed that reading literary fiction is linked to better scores on this empathy-measuring test.
这与2013年广泛报道的一项发现极为相似，2013年的研究称，阅读文学小说能够使人们在感性测试中获得较高的分数。
It's a similar finding to a widely reported 2013 study that claimed that reading literary fiction is linked to better scores on this empathy-measuring test.
这与2013年一项被广泛报道的研究结果相似：阅读文学小说与在情商测试中得高分相关。
This matters for cultural life, because most literary fiction and serious non-fiction falls into that bracket and much of it could become uneconomical to publish.
这事关文化生活，因为大部分文学小说和严肃的非小说作品都属于非畅销书，其中大部分出版以后都成为了浪费。
"The Destructors" is a literary fiction because the unexpected ending was caused by the complex characters, and it makes readers think deeply about the human nature.
《破坏者》是一篇由复杂的人物特性引发出人意料的结尾，从而给读者带来深刻的启发的文学类小说。
Writing &Reading (mostly literary fiction) strengthens my mind and my craftsmanship, and it also strengthens my relationships because we have interesting topics to discuss.
写作和阅读（大部分是文学小说）强化了我的大脑和能力，同时也强化了我和他人的关系，因为我们可以讨论共同的话题。
A lot of literary fiction strikes a bargain with the reader: you suck up a certain amount of difficulty, of resistance and interpretive work and even boredom, and then you get the payoff.
大量文学小说同读者达成了一个协议：要先克服某些困难和抵制心理，认真解读乃至忍受乏味，然后你才会获得报偿。
When the counterpointing is done with care and insight, in literary fiction such as Michael Cunningham’s “The Hours” and A.S. Byatt’s “Possession”, the strands weave together into a rich tapestry.
当这种对比做得恰到好处，且对于两个时代都有深刻见解时，这两条线就能够合二为一，编织成一幅豪华的绣帷。迈克尔·坎宁安的“时时刻刻”，以及拜亚特的“隐之书”都是文学小说里的成功例子。
"Literary" fiction has no hard-and-fast definition.
“文学”小说没有固定的定义。
For example, evolutionary psychology is being used by literary scholars to explain the themes and plot devices in fiction.
例如，进化心理学正被文学学者用来解释小说中的主题和情节设计。
Evolutionary psychology is being used by literary scholars to explain the long-lasting themes and plot devices in fiction.
进化心理学正被文学学者用来解释小说中长期存在的主题和情节设计。
For example, evolutionary psychology is being used by literary scholars to explain the long-lasting themes and plot devices in fiction.
例如，进化心理学被文学学者用来解释小说中经久不衰的主题和情节设计。
It was recommended for nearly every nature literary class, including the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and it in fact won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988.
几乎所有的自然文学类奖项都有它的提名，包括国家图书奖和国家书评奖，事实上它还获得了1988年的普利策小说奖。
By contrast, general readers in Asian countries never had any need for the doorway of literary theory when they read my fiction.
相比之下，亚洲国家的普通读者在读我的小说时则从不需要经过任何文学理论的大门。
By contrast, general readers in Asian countries never had any need for the doorway of literary theory when they read my fiction.
相比之下，亚洲国家的普通读者在读我的小说时则从不需要经过任何文学理论的大门。
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