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畅销书上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！确是这样！许多小说改编电影都很糟糕，不是吗？

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

这和一般小说情节大不相同呢。

It is one of my favorite novels.

这是我最喜欢一本小说。

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.

哥斯拉是电影常胜将军, 而这只巨大蜥蜴只是小说幻想, 但这只可能是现如今真正哥斯拉。

The plot in this novel is quite novel.

这部小说情节非常新颖。

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.

英文名字听起来鲁滨逊是这个家庭姓氏，但是更准确翻译应该是《瑞士鲁滨逊》，因为这是关于一个遭遇海难瑞士家庭故事，就像一个世纪之前小说《鲁宾逊漂流记》一样。

Because I like her novel Harry Potter.

因为我很喜欢她小说哈利波特。

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

在英国，每周星期日报纸都评论小说作品。

And for Christie's novels, it provided an intimate knowledge of poisons.

这也为克里斯蒂小说提供了关于毒药详尽知识。

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咒语之一）之外，我们还将会避开一些“有影响力坏人”，并教你如何将影响力用在好面。

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，在他小说《沙多里斯》，福克纳展现了他余生所有想法。

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。但是大家千万别被这些小说误导了，她本人比小说人物要严肃得多。

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

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

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.

这确实是我读过最精彩、最震撼、最壮丽小说之一。

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

保罗·鲍尔斯在小说《遮蔽天空》写下了非常优美语句。