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了又。

The modern mind, Tim Parks, a novelist and critic, writes, " is overwhelmingly inclined toward communication...It is not simply that one is interrupted; it is that one is actually inclined to interruption" .

小说家兼批评家蒂姆·帕克写道：“当代人的心理极其倾向于交流… … 并不仅仅是说你被打扰了，而是你实际上很容易被打扰。

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

没错！的确是这样！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.

这一般小说的情节大不相同呢。

There are many novels, magazines, periodicals, and so forth.

那里有很多小说、杂志期刊等等。

The novelist Edith Wharton once wrote that the end is latent in the beginning.

小说家伊迪丝·华顿曾写道，开头即蕴藏着结局。

It is one of my favorite novels.

这是我最喜欢的一本小说。

For the moment, mind-reading is still science fiction.

目前“读心”依旧存留在科幻小说当中。

All I know is, life is not a Nicholas Sparks novel.

我只知道 生活不是纯爱小说。

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.

哥是电影票房中的常胜将军, 而这只巨大的蜥蜴只是小说中的幻想, 但这只可能是现如今真正的哥。

Curiously, some two-and-a-half years and two novels later, my experiment in what the Americans term “downshifting” has turned my tired excuse into an absolute reality.

奇怪的是，大约两半的时间我写完两部小说后，我这个被美国人称为“放慢生活节奏”的试验，却使我老掉牙的借口变成了现实。

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。

So THAT is the challenge that Shakespeare faces, and it’s also the challenge that you face whenever you write for an audience, whether it’s a novel or a pedantic YouTube comment about the accuracy of our Gallifreyan.

那就是莎士比亚面对的挑战，也是你写作时面对的挑战，无论是在写小说，还是写加利弗德语准确性的留言(神秘博士语言)。

It was science fiction coming to life.

科幻小说变成了现实。

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的姓氏，但是更准确的翻译应该是《瑞士的鲁滨逊》，因为这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。

Carson and Mrs Hughes sometimes take a novel or two. What are your interests?

CarsonHughes夫人有时也借一二本小说 你对哪类书感兴趣？

Black Myth Wukong's story is somewhat of a follow-up to the classic novel Journey to the West by Wu Chengen, a book that I only personally know thanks to very loose adaptations like Dragon Ball and Enslaved Odyssey to the West.

《黑神话：悟空》的故事在某种程度上是对吴承恩经典小说《西游记》的续写，作为一个门外汉，我只是从一些改编作品如《龙珠》《奴役：西行之旅》了解了一些关于西游记的内容。

Probably a romance novel. It seems like she's always reading one of those.

可能是一本浪漫小说吧。她总是读那样的书。

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。