Like what makes people want to keep reading certain newspaper articles or long novels?

比如，是什么让人们想继续阅读某些报纸文章或长小说？

Ms Clark takes her time with this long, undulating novel.

在这本情节跌宕起的长小说中，克拉克夫人的行文风格有点慢条斯理。

Hitherto had been more likely to pick up a newly discovered novel by Ayn Rand.

迄今为止，他更有起新发现艾茵·兰德所著的长小说。

Well, I don't think that's a bad disability to have if you're going to write long novels.

如果你要写长小说，我不认为这是一个糟糕的缺陷。

Maupassant's stories range from the short tale of few pages, one or two, to a full-length novel.

莫泊桑的故事幅长短不等，从一两页的短小说到长小说都有涉猎莫泊桑的故事幅长短不等，从一两页的短小说到长小说都有涉猎。

Dorothy West's first long book was published when she was more than forty years old.

多萝西·韦斯特的第一本长小说是在她四十多岁的时候版的。

Travolta was in the movie made out of Carrie, my first novel.

屈演过我的第一部长小说《魔女嘉丽》改编的电影。

I enjoy a good, big novel, lots of difficult language in it, which could be described as meaty.

我喜欢一本好的长小说，里面有很多艰深的语言，以说是内容丰富。

He wrote, then, prodigiously, for half a century: novels, short stories, poetry, autobiography.

此后，西利托爆发惊人的量，写作生涯长达半个世纪，涉及长小说、短小说、诗歌和自传。

Ms Munro's short stories -- the opposite of provincial despite their settings -- have the emotional depth of novels.

门罗的短小说--尽管背景设定为日常生活，但完全不狭隘--具有长小说的情感深度。

He wrote many plays, novels and short stories about people's lives, and was named " the People's Artist" .

他写了很多关于人民生活的话剧，长小说和短小说，他被授予了“人民艺术家”的称号。

In 1955, he published his first novel.

1955年发表第一部长小说。

Well, do you want the short story or the long story?

那么，你想要短小说还是长小说？

I find it difficult to stay focused when reading long novels.

我发现阅读长小说时很难集中注意力。

Frank got serious about finding an agent at about the same time he got serious about his novel.

弗兰克是在正式决定要写长小说的时候认真考虑要找经纪人的。

Half a dozen asked to see the first eighty pages of his novel.

六个人要求看看他长小说的前八十页。

The reason I'm seeking representation now is that I'm at work on a novel.

我之所以现在决定寻找经纪人是因为我正在写一本长小说。

In January of 1963, she published the novel The Bell Jar, but not using her own name.

1963年1月， 她版了长小说《钟形罩》，但没有使用自己的名字。

Usually it is possible. What the Formula taught me is that every story and novel is collapsible to some degree.

这公式教我的是，每个故事，或是长小说，到某个程度都会站不住脚坍塌下来。

If I have the chance later, I hope to enjoy a concert.

21.What is your favorite book？ 你最喜欢看的书是什么？我目前最喜欢书的是《平凡的世界》，主人公在平凡的生活中默默拼搏、顽强上进的精神深深打动着我，一直激励着我的成长，我从心里认为哪怕再平凡的人也应为其所生活的世界奋斗！并且，这本书的语言风格很质朴，刻画人物形象很生动，与大时代背景结合紧密，是一部经典的长小说。