I felt, had Nabokov wanted it abridged, he would have written it shorter, and I suggested to his son Dmitri that he might insist we record it as written.

我当时就想，如果纳博科夫想要删节的话，他自己就会缩短篇幅的，于是，我就建议他的儿子德米特里·纳博科夫坚持按照原文的篇幅进行录制。

Flabby and repetitive writing explains some of this heft.

松散而重复的写作手法让本书的篇幅过长。

Technical and academic applicants may need more.

技术学术申请人可能需要更多篇幅。

IN THE crowded annals of marital spite, a 2010 divorce in Illinois—involving a Roman Catholic man and a Jewish woman and lavishly covered by the local press—stands out for the irreconcilable nature of its core dispute.

2010年，伊利诺伊州的一起离婚案：男方是罗马天主，方则是一名犹太人。媒体大篇幅的报导二人。如果婚姻中的不谐可以合成一部编年史，那么这起离婚案算得上是婚姻中核不可调的典范。

It should be no longer than one A4 page.

求职信不能超过一张A4纸的篇幅。

The rules if you like, such as the length, it's important you follow those.

像篇幅这样的规定很重要。

The chapter is probably very long, and you don't have enough time.

章节篇幅往往很长，而你的时间并不充裕。

It was a short, beautiful and baffling work.

这是一本篇幅短小、文字优美、但很深奥的作品。

The front pages of newspapers the world over reflected the strong enthusiasm.

世界各地报纸头条的大篇幅报道也表明了所有人的热情。

When you revise your draft as a whole, pay attention to content, organization and length.

当你以一个整体来修改草稿时，注意内容、结构篇幅。

If they write reviews, do they tend to be shorter reviews?

‘如果它们写下评价，一般来说篇幅较短吗？’

After hundreds of pages describing the problem, Mr Clapp is light on prescriptions.

在用了数百页的篇幅描述问题之后，克拉普对解决方案的阐述却显得简略。

I told her this small story at great length.

我用了很长的篇幅给她讲了这个小故事。

J.K. Rowling captured the headlines shortly after the release of her novel Harry Potter.

J.K.萝琳发表她的小说《哈利波特》之后，旋即获得媒体大篇幅报导。

He made a very long speech on television, long in rhetoric, short in specifics.

他在电视上做了一个很长的演讲, 篇幅冗长, 细节极短。

Now he dedicates quite a few pages to speed reading in the book.

现在，他在书中花了相当多的篇幅来介绍快速阅读。

The article is generally between 250 and 300 words.

材料通常为 250-300 字的篇幅。

They want to run the story this week.

他们想在本周大篇幅报道此事。

Or if they're actually doing a good thing for two and a half pages and then near the end one of the guys says something about the other guy's mama and he goes, " Screw you."

或者，如果他们真的在做一件好事，在两页半的篇幅里，然后在接近尾声的时候，其中一个人说了一些关于另一个人妈妈的事情，他说，“去你的。”

It's published in short segments, usually on a weekly basis and meant to be read on a smartphone in five, 10 minutes.

它以短篇幅的形式发布，通常是周更。这就是为了能在手机上用 5 或 10 钟阅读。