He is a champion at writing familiar essays.

他是写小品文的好手。

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Arguments over familiar essays indicated some modern writers were in the mental state of being alert to or resistant to the commercialized culture mechanism.

围绕小品文热而产生的种种争论辩驳，则凸显出现代作家对商业化文化机制或顺从或警觉或抵抗的心理。

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Zhou Zhuoren lived in The Times without freedom, but he knew bow to turn his oppressive mental state into a free form (his familiar essays) of expression and thus molded his unique writing style.

周作人所处的时代是没有自由的，但他却把这种不自由的心境转化为自由的形式(小品散文)表达出来，形成了自己独特的风格。

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Excerpted from At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman.

NPR: Excerpt: 'At Large and At Small'

The attention Mr Slater gives to Dickens's less familiar writings the short stories, journalism and essays is one of the things that distinguish his excellent biography.

ECONOMIST: Charles Dickens