Was it… a) Miguel de Cervantes b) Leo Tolstoy Or c) William Shakespeare?

是a)米格尔·德·塞万斯 b)列夫·托尔斯 还是c)威廉·莎士比亚?

Tolstoy is not afraid to interrupt the narrative to pose insightful questions about history.

托尔斯并不担心打断原有叙述而出深刻，关于历史。

And if its length intimidates you, just image how poor Tolstoy felt.

如果读这个大部头令你止步， 可以想象托尔斯写它时将多么痛苦。

Tolstoy, a volcanic soul, was born to a famously eccentric aristocratic family in 1828.

托尔斯这个暴脾气人，1828年出生于贵族家庭， 此家庭以性格古怪而闻名。

She was from the family of Leo Tolstoy, the famous Russian writer.

他妻子出身于托尔斯家族，托尔斯是个俄国文豪。

Nikolai Gogol and Leo Tolstoy wrote more controversial plays.

果戈理和托尔斯创作戏剧更具争议性。

If it wasn't Emily Bronte, it could be Tolstoy or Gogol.

即使艾米丽·勃朗特不写托尔斯或果戈理，也可能写这种情节。

Some see it as a c ounterpart to Leo Tolstoy's “War and Peace” (though it is more readable).

一些人把它与列夫·托尔斯《战争与和》并论，不过它更具可读性。

I take it, that Tolstoy is making, is that most of us are actually in Ivan Ilyich's boat.

我认为 托尔斯想要说明是我们大多数人实际上就在伊万里奇船上。

When Leo Tolstoy here wakes up, you might get him to revisit the idea of a new vocation.

等这个托尔斯醒来时候，可以让他重新考虑一下职业。

We're supposed to read war and peace by Leo Tolstoy and then write a book report about it.

我们要读列夫·托尔斯《战争与和》，然后写一篇读书报告。

Tolstoy has brought his characters to the year 1820,36 years before the events he originally hoped to write about.

书中时间已经回溯到1820年，这比托尔斯最初设想1856年早了36年。

So Tolstoy began writing, both about the big events of history and the small lives that inhabit those events.

因此，托尔斯决定了他既要描写历史上重要事件，也要描写历史洪流中小人物生活。

Thanks to the judicious Tolstoy, we see entirely unexpected aspects of the man.

感谢明智托尔斯， 我们看到了这个人物完全出乎意料方面。

Napoleon appears several times, and even one of Tolstoy's ancestors plays a background part.

拿破仑出现了好几次，甚至托尔斯一位祖先也在背景中扮演了一个角色。

It is, in other words, the sum total of Tolstoy's imaginative powers, and nothing less.

换言之，这是托尔斯想象力总和，绝非虚言。

She might have found that Plato and Tolstoy had things to teach her.

她可能发现柏拉图和托尔斯有东西可以教给她。

It became intolerable There is no death Tolstoy in tone.

它变得无法忍受了。语气里没有托尔斯式死亡感。

If you've read much Tolstoy, Chekhov, or Maupassant, you'll find duels throughout the stories.

如果你读过很多托尔斯、契诃夫或莫泊桑作品，你会发现故事中到处都有决斗。

They're these world-famous translators of Russian literature, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Pushkin, Bulgakov, Pasternak.

他们是世界着名俄罗斯文学翻译家，托尔斯、陀思妥耶夫斯基、契诃夫、普希金、布尔加科夫、帕斯捷尔纳克译者。