The greatest novelist of the 19th Century, Sir Walter Scott, was given the title of "king of blockheads" and was made to wear a dunce cap for a whole month.

19世纪最伟大的小说家之一，沃尔特·斯科特先生，曾被人称为“傻子之王”，并被戴上了象征劣等生的帽子，整整戴了一个月。

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At the beginning of the 19th century, which you might call the prelude to the Victorian era, Walter Scott had demonstrated that you could be a gentleman and write fiction.

19世纪初，可称为维多利亚时代的序幕，沃尔特·斯哥特的例子说明绅士也可以写小说。

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Sir Walter Scott began using the word in the 1822 in his book the Pirate, more than one thousand years after the Viking invasions.

1822年，在维京人入侵1000年后，Walter Scott爵士第一次在他的著作《海盗》使用该词。

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