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

是a)米格尔·德·塞万提 b)列夫·托尔泰 还是c)威廉·莎士比亚?

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

托尔泰并不担心打断原有的叙述而提出深刻的，关的问题。

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

如果读这个大部头令你止步， 可以想象托尔泰写它时将多么痛苦。

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

他的妻子出身托尔泰家族，托尔泰是个俄国文豪。

Nikolai Gogol and Leo Tolstoy wrote more controversial plays.

果戈理和托尔泰创作的戏剧更具争议性。

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

即使艾米丽·勃朗特不写托尔泰或果戈理，也可能写这种情节。

In 1863, he set out to write a short novel about a political dissident returning from exile in Siberia.

1863年，托尔泰本打算 写一本关政见不合的短篇小说，此时他刚从西伯利亚流亡。

Was it… a) Miguel de Cervantes, b) LeonTolstoy or c) William Shakespeare?

是a)米格尔·德·塞万提 b)列夫·托尔泰 还是c)威廉·莎士比亚?

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

托尔泰这个暴脾气的人，1828年出生贵族家庭， 此家庭以性格古怪而闻名。

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·托尔泰的《战争与和平》相提并论，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 托尔泰想要说明的是我们大多数人实际上就在伊万里奇的船上。

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

等这个托尔泰醒的时候，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·托尔泰的《战争与和平》，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.

书中的时间已经溯到1820年，这比托尔泰最初设想的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，托尔泰决定了他既要描写上的重要事件，也要描写洪流中小人物的生活。

Yet elsewhere Tolstoy repudiates militarism and violence of all kinds.

然而在其他地方，托尔泰否认军国主义和各种暴力行为。

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

拿破仑多次出现，甚至托尔泰的一位祖先也扮演了背景角色。

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

换句话说， 它是托尔泰想象力的总和，仅此而已。

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

她可能发现柏拉图和托尔泰有东西可以教给她。

Consider the work of Tolstoy, for many Russia's finest novelist, and the world's.

想一想托尔泰的作品，对许多俄罗乃至全世界最优秀的小说家说。