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

他妻子出身于托尔斯泰家族，托尔斯泰是个俄国文豪。

Nikolai Gogol and Leo Tolstoy wrote more controversial plays.

果戈理和托尔斯泰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·勃朗特不写托尔斯泰或果戈理，也可能写这种情节。

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

是a)米格尔·德·塞万提斯 b)列夫·托尔斯泰 还是c)威廉·莎士比亚?

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

托尔斯泰并不担心打断原有叙述而提出深刻，关于历史问题。

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

等这个托尔斯泰醒来时候，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·托尔斯泰《战争与和平》，然后写一篇读书报告。

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

是a)米格尔·德·塞万提斯 b)列夫·托尔斯泰 还是c)威廉·莎士比亚?

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

我认为 托尔斯泰想要说明是我们大多数人实际上就在伊万里奇船上。

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，这比托尔斯泰最初设想1856年早了36年。

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

如果读这个大部头令你止步， 可以想象托尔斯泰写它时将多么痛苦。

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·托尔斯泰《战争与和平》相提并论，不过它更具可读性。

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

因此，托尔斯泰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。

Almost every day he came to play to Tolstoy during the latter's last illness.

在托尔斯泰最后一次生病期间， 他几乎每天都来找托尔斯泰演奏。

Where else was Tolstoy supposed to get his plot points?

托尔斯泰应该从哪里得到他情节点？

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

托尔斯泰这个暴脾气人，1828年出生于贵族家庭， 此家庭以性格古怪而闻名。

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

她可能发现柏拉图和托尔斯泰有东西可以教给她。

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

拿破仑多次出现，甚至托尔斯泰一位祖先也扮演了背景角色。

But the girl Tolstoy married was jealous by nature.

但是托尔斯泰娶这个女孩生性嫉妒。

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

换句话说， 它是托尔斯泰想象力总和，仅此而已。