Once, we lingered over every word of a classic novel or the latest best seller.

过去，我们对古典小说或最新的畅销书上的每一个字都是看了又看。

Yeah! That's true! A lot of adaptions are really quite terrible aren't they?

没错！的确是样！许多小说改编的电影都很糟糕，不是吗？

They take the place of the conventional dragon or wicked earl.

和一般小说的情节大不相同呢。

It is one of my favorite novels.

是我最喜欢的一本小说。

Godzilla is back on top of the box office, and while this gigantic lizard is just a fiction, this may have been the real Godzilla of its day.

哥拉是电影票房中的常胜将军, 而大的蜥蜴是小说中的幻想, 但可能是现如今正的哥拉。

The plot in this novel is quite novel.

部小说的情节非常新颖。

Oh, I haven't read it through the way I read a novel.

我没有用原来读小说的方法来读它。

The English name makes it sound as though Robinson is the family's surname, but a more accurate translation would be The Swiss Robinsons, because it's about a Swiss family who are shipwrecked, like Robinson Crusoe in the novel of a century earlier.

英文名字起来鲁滨逊是个家庭的姓氏，但是更准确的翻译应该是《瑞士的鲁滨逊》，因为是关于一个遭遇海难的瑞士家庭的故事，就像一个世纪之前的小说《鲁宾逊漂流记》一样。

Because I like her novel Harry Potter.

因为我很喜欢她的小说哈利波特。

Works of fiction are reviewed in the Sunday papers in England.

在英国，每周的星期日报纸都评论小说的作品。

Except instead of Avada Kedavra, we're going to fend off some “Influencias Malus” and teach you how to use influence for good.

除了阿瓦达索命咒（哈利波特系列小说里的咒语之一）之外，我们还将会避开一些“有影响的坏人”，并教你如何将影响用在好的方面。

Snoopy is always trying to write the great American novel. But he cannot get beyond the first line of his book.

史努比总是想写一本伟大的美国小说。但他总是写完第一句就没有后文了。

In nineteen twenty-nine, in his novel Sartoris, Faulkner presented almost all the ideas he developed during the rest of his life.

1929年，在他的小说《沙多里》中，福克纳展现了他余生所有的想法。

Alcott has known for her moralistic girls' novels. But she was a much more serious individual than those novels might lead one to belief.

Alcott以写女性说教类小说而出名。但是大家千万别被些小说误导了，她本人比小说中的人物要严肃得多。

And Ukraine's greatest living novelist, Andrey Kurkov tells us there is much to say about Ukraine's culture, identity and resistance.

乌克兰现在最伟大的小说家，安德烈·库尔科夫告诉我们，乌克兰的文化、身份和抵抗有很多可说的。

Speaking of reading, if you want to get the knowledge from awesome nonfiction books on psychology, self growth, business, mindset and financial topics, check out a practical growth academy.

说到阅读，如果你想看一些有关心理学、自我成长、商业、思维模式和金融的非小说书籍，请查看一个成长学院。

Just take a look at the average non-fiction book which is about 200 pages long.

一般的非小说类书籍大约200页左右。

This is truly one of the most brilliant, devastating, magnificent novels I have ever read.

确实是我读过的最精彩、最震撼、最壮丽的小说之一。

Paul Bowles, who was the novelist of The Sheltering Sky, wrote very beautiful sentences.

保罗·鲍尔在小说《遮蔽的天空》写下了非常优美的语句。

What makes it so special is that it isn’t just a novel in the straight narrative sense.

部小说的与众不同之处在于，它不是一部直线叙事的小说。