来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第23集 第23集》

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  Well, I think this has a lot to do with how this novel was composed.
  为构成一部小说将有大量的工作需要去做
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  Edward P. Jones wrote his first book of short stories
  爱德华·P. 琼斯在90年代
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  in the 1990s,
  写下了他的第一本故事集
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  in the early '90s.
  在90年代初期
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  I can't remember the date exactly.
  我记不起确切的日期了
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  And it was very successful, but not successful enough to support him,
  它非常成功 但不足以供养他
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  so he worked as an editor
  所以他在《税务快讯》
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  at a journal called Tax Notes.
  任编辑一职
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  It was a journal of tax law, scintillating.
  那是一本谈论税法的杂志 非常风趣
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  Jones was working there, and I'm going to tell you a story,
  琼斯在那里工作 我要给你们讲个故事
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  now, that he tells in some of his interviews,
  现在 他会在一些访谈中发表言论
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  but I heard first from his agent,
  但当时我是从他的代理人