He is a man of letters.

他说，他是一个文人。

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He was a man of letters with no interest in current affairs .

他是个文学家，对时事不感兴趣。

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As a man of letters, Fraser tends to emphasise rhetoric at the expense of reality.

作为一个文人，弗雷泽往往为了讲究修辞而舍弃真实性。

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In one of these letters, a famous letter to his friend, Francesco Vettori a man named Francesco Vettori, he describes how he came to write his most famous book.

其中一封信，是写给他的一位知名友人，名为，他形容自己,如何写就其最著名的大作。

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From an early age he adopted a foppish, bohemian style, and in due course, having thrown over his studies in engineering and the possibility of a legal career, he became a man of letters.

ECONOMIST: Literary lives

The settings, too, are interiors: cramped rooms, generally lent by understanding friends after Coleridge had left his wife and children in the Lake District and decided to become a man of letters in London.

ECONOMIST: English poets

It should come as no surprise that Baker, a distinguished man of letters, should nevertheless be interested in the lees of eroticism.

NEWYORKER: Blue Period