"When a writer sells a book, he gets an advance on the profits, " I said as I scraped moss from between the shingles.
“作者售书时可以得到一笔预付金”,我边从屋顶板缝里刮青苔边说道。"It is a serious accomplishment, " Nocera conceded. "What remains for future biographers is to make sense of that life. "
“这是一个正儿八经的赞美,”Nocera承认到,“接下来,以后的传记作者们需要做的就是真正理解那段人生经历。”It's difficult to see how the writer could have written this with a straight face.
难以想象,这篇声明的作者是如何板着脸写下这些的。No one of us (even the authors of this dictionary) can know all the meanings of so many terms off the top of our heads.
没有人(即便是本词典的作者)一下就能知道这么多术语的所有含义。The last paragraph needs to be dropped altogether. If the essay has done it's job, recaps like this are obvious and unnecessary.
最后一段也需要删掉。如果这篇文章已经说出作者想要告诉我们的,那么最后一段的重复过于做作和多余。I never claimed to be a good writer but I spoke from the heart and told the truth.
我从没说过自己是个好作者,但我写的东西都发自内心,不说假话。The author had confused the name of the Pacific port the ship had left with a city of the same name on the Atlantic coast.
那个作者却把这艘船离开的太平洋港口同一座有着相同名字的大西洋海岸城市混淆了。We know from her previous work that McLachlan is a thoughtful lyricist who knows a thing or two about song construction.
我们从她之前的作品可以得知,McLachlan是一位颇有心思的词作者,对歌曲构建非常熟悉。The author of this book had in his hands, in 1848, the special report on this subject made to the Prefect of Police in 1832.
关于这件案子,本书的作者在一八四八年手中还有过一份一八三二年写给警署署长的专案调查报告。