Already famous by that time, Swift would become immortalized with this last great work.

当时已经成名的他，因为最后这本巨著而得以名垂不朽。

The aftermath of those catastrophes was the theme of “Postwar” (2005), a 1,000-page tome that dealt with the 44 years between the end of the main fighting and the collapse of the Soviet totalitarian empire that survived it.

这一系列的灾难所造成的后果便形成了一本主题为“战后欧洲史”（2005年出版）的书，这本长达1000页的巨著阐述了从主要战争的结束到苏维埃集权主义倒塌的这44年。

It might run dry after the first few tentative words or last just long enough to create a masterpiece(or several) that would last forever and make a difference in the scheme of things.

许在你试探性地写上几个字后它就会，许足够用来创作一部影响深远的不朽巨著(是几部)。

I want to join an Internet group to discuss great books by great writers.

我想加入一个互联网群组来讨论一些伟大作家的巨著。

In his magnus opus Being and Time, Heidegger carries out his fundamental ontology by introducing the notion of 'Dasein', or 'being-there'; the distinctive mode of Being particular to humans, the beings for whom being matters.

在他的巨著《在与时间》中，海德格尔通过引入“此在”“在那里”的概念来实现他的基本本体论；人类特有的在模式，对人类来说在很重要。

Or we might use a big smile to charm a friend into thinking that of course we've read the giant book they recommended and it was so interesting!

者，我们可以用灿烂的笑容来迷惑朋友，让他觉得我们当然读过他们推荐的那本巨著，而且非常有趣！

Foucault wrote the last volume of this work while dying of AIDS, that he had contracted in a San Francisco gay bar.

福柯在撰写自己最后的巨著时，死于艾滋病，他是从旧金山的男同吧里感染的艾滋病。

He spent nearly 20 years honing his analysis and polishing his prose before publishing his groundbreaking work, On the Origin of Species, in November 1859.

他在1859年II月发表了开创性的巨著《物种起源》。在发表该书之前，他花了将近20年时间对他的分析进行推敲改进，并对文字进行反复润色。

Do it all in one sitting, if that's possible (it won't be, of course, if your book is a four- or five-hundred-pager) .

如果可能的话，一口气读完（当然，如果你写的是部四五百页的长篇巨著，这就没办法做到了）。

It then took another three decades before he finally published his masterwork On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres for a broader audience.

然后又过了三十年，他才最终出版了他的巨著《天球运行论》，向更广泛的读者传播他的理论。

John Steinbeck's great book " The Grapes of Wrath" helped millions understand and feel in their hearts the troubles faced by poor farmers.

约翰·斯坦贝克的巨著《愤怒的葡萄》，帮助数百万人理解并感受到贫穷农民面临的困难。

The Lords consulted the Book of Death and Life — a tome which showed the time of every living soul's death.

阎王们查询着生死簿——这本巨著可以展示所有生灵的死亡时间。

He explained that he used a false name because he wanted to write a serious and great piece of literature someday.

他解释使用笔名是希望某天能够撰写一篇正式的文学巨著。

Goodwin remains on Harvard's board of overseers, despite the fact that she committed sins that might get an undergraduate expelled.

现在安布罗斯想必可以略松一口气了，因为舆论已将焦点对准另一位剪贴高手多丽丝卡恩斯古德温，她是美国电视节目的常客，对于诸如林顿约翰逊者亚伯拉罕林肯等人的奇闻轶事总能侃侃而谈（前者与他熟识，后者是他下一部巨著的主角）， (1) 但他对剽窃指控的处理可能比指控本身更糟糕。上个世界八十年代末，她用钱打发了一名被剽窃作者，让其保持沉默。如今在解释自己抄袭举动时，她申辩道当初不得不依赖手抄笔记，很多历史学家都亦如此。只是并未引起轩然大波而已。令人不解的是，本科生犯了同样的错误会被逐出校园，而古德温却仍是哈弗大学的校董事会成员之一。

As a result, no money was left over for another publication, " Principia Mathematica" , by Isaac Newton.

结果，对于另一鸿篇巨著—牛顿的《自然哲学的数学原理》，学会只能爱莫能助了。

Jonathan Eig's magnificent new biography is an overdue attempt to grapple with King in all his complexity.

乔纳森·艾格的这本传记巨著是对把握金的所有复杂性的一次姗姗来迟的尝试。

First published in 1984, it is a management tome dressed up in the clothes of a thriller.

该书于1984年首次出版，是一本披着悬疑小说外衣的管理学巨著。

People have always read, and will always read great books.

人们以前一直在阅读名著，将来也会一直品读巨著。

Either way, short story or thousand-page whopper of a novel, the techniques of excavation remain basically the same.

不论哪种，短篇小说是一千多页的小说巨著，挖掘的技术大致上相同。

These extended digressions are part of what make " War and Peace" so panoramic in scope.

这些延伸出的题外话也成就了这本巨著，使其拥有更加宏大的格局。