" These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong" .

" 这些书籍以伤且错误的方式写。"

Two of the guards were the kind Chekhov describes in Ward No.6.

有两个警卫是契诃夫在《第六病室》中写的那种。

I think locale and texture are much more important to the reader's sense of actually being in the story than any physical description of the players.

我认为，与其写的外在形象，还不如突出现场感和特征更容易让读者产身临其境的感受。

England's greatest novelist, Jane Austen, spent her career writing almost exclusively about her characters' quests to locate a suitable mate.

英国最伟大的小说家简·奥斯汀，几乎整个职业涯都在写她笔下寻找合适伴侣的旅程。

Nor do I think that physical description should be a shortcut to character.

同样，我认为外形写不该成为性格塑造的捷。

The people she wrote about in her books are very similar to people she knew there.

她在书中写的与她在那里认识的非常相似。

Most of her characters, or the people she writes about in her books and short stories, are what we might call misfits and fanatics.

她笔下的大多数，或者她在书中和短篇小说中写的， 都是我们所谓的格格不入和狂热分子。

Well-observed pen portraits make the revolving cast of characters—Chinese underworld fixers, hapless bank employees, casino croupiers and hackers in rural England—easier to follow.

动的写让不断变换的角色——中国地下世界的关系、倒霉的银行员工、赌场发牌员以及英国乡村的黑客——更容易被理解。

On the river, and especially with Huck Finn, Twain found the ultimate expression of escape from the pace he lived by and often deplored, from life's regularities and the energy-sapping clamor for success.

通过对密西西比河，尤其是对哈克·费恩这一的写，马克·吐温将希望从那束缚着自己并常常令自己苦恼的活步调中摆脱出来，从活的各种清规戒律以及为了事业成功而进行的艰苦挣扎中解放出来的愿望表达得淋漓尽致。

The nonfiction writer's rare privilege is to have the whole wonderful world of real people to write about.

非虚构作家的珍贵特权是能够写整个真实的奇妙世界。

Next to knowing how to write about people, you should know how to write about a place.

除了懂得如何写， 你还应学会如何写地点。