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

他的妻子出身于托尔族，托尔是个俄国文豪。

Nikolai Gogol and Leo Tolstoy wrote more controversial plays.

果戈理和托尔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 b)列夫·托尔 还是c)威廉·莎士比亚?

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

托尔并不担打断原有的叙述而提出深刻的，关于历史的问题。

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

如果这个大部头令你止步， 可以想象托尔写它时将多么痛苦。

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

等这个托尔醒来的时候，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.

我们要列夫·托尔的《战争与和平》，然后写一报告。

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

托尔这个暴脾气的人，1828年出生于贵族庭， 此庭以性格古怪而闻名。

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 还是c)威廉·莎士比亚?

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

1863年，托尔本来打算 写一本关于政见不合的短小说，此时他刚从西伯利亚流亡回来。

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

我认为 托尔想要说明的是我们大多数人实际上就在伊万里奇的船上。

Tolstoy has brought his characters to the year 1820,36 years before the events he originally hoped to write about.

中的时间已经回溯到1820年，这比托尔最初设想的1856年早了36年。

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·托尔的《战争与和平》相提并论，不过它更具可性。

Where else was Tolstoy supposed to get his plot points?

托尔应该从哪里得到他的情节点？

Tolstoy had such a theory about history.

托尔对于历史有这样的理论。

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

她可能发现柏拉图和托尔有东西可以教给她。

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

拿破仑多次出现，甚至托尔的一位祖先也扮演了背景角色。

Lenny Bernstein, " War and Peace, " Tolstoy.

伦尼·伯恩坦，《战争与和平》，托尔。

But the girl Tolstoy married was jealous by nature.

但是托尔娶的这个女孩生性嫉妒。