Puns have long been used by comedy writers, such as William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and George Carlin.

这一修辞手法很长时间以来一直被诸如莎士比亚、奥斯卡·王尔德、乔治·卡林等喜剧作家使用。

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They chose eight novels—including works by 10)Kurt Vonnegut, William Faulkner and Oscar Wilde—to read in eight weeks. That is more than the school's 11)A.

他们选出了八部小说在八周内阅读，其中包括库尔特·冯内古特、威 廉·福克纳和奥斯卡·王尔德的作品。

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We are told that his parents the eye-and-ear surgeon William Wilde and the poet Jane Francesca Wilde, who wrote under the name Speranza accumulated mountains of books at their home, in Dublin, and that young Oscar habitually read in bed, his mind ravished by Irish folktales, ancient-Greek texts, Romantic poems, and gothic novels.

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