British writer Charles Dickens used this expression in eighteen forty-three.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

It's Dickens in part, that stereotype of old London, of the urban working class, but it's not just Dickens. Moby Dick is here too.

其中有狄更斯出现，有对于伦敦及当地工人阶级的,刻板印象，不仅仅是狄更斯的影子，还有《白鲸记》

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

so, like Dickens and Hardy and those kind of classic books. They're really nice.

那么，比如狄更斯和哈代的作品，还有那些经典读物。他们都非常不错。

要继续努力 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The adaptation of Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit, a co-production of the BBC and U.S.Public Broadcasting System, won three awards.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21