匹克威克外传
The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens · 初版 1837 年
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- 获益比当代时政书单要丰富得多
- 包含对法律从业者的辛辣刻画
Dickens 的首部小说最初是以连载形式创作并发表的。这是一部喜剧，讲述了 The Pickwick Club 成员们的一系列遭遇，该俱乐部的主要宗旨是发现并记录英格兰各地的社会生活奇闻与独特风俗。这一探索带领成员们乘着驿车走遍全国各地，体验形形色色的驿站旅馆或舒适或艰苦的条件。
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……我觉得这份书单太烂了。除了能帮你了解脱欧公投后陷入癫狂的那一小撮狭隘舆论之外，对你理解这个国家毫无帮助。我懒得另列一份书单，但去读《匹克威克外传》（The Pickwick Papers）绝对比看这整份书单收获大得多。
…I think this list is terrible. It won't help you understand this country except for the narrow section of opinion that went mad after the Brexit vote. I won't make an alternative list but reading The Pickwick Papers will give more profit than this whole list.
……那种文风读起来简直是遭罪。早在 1977 年我还挺享受一整年高强度的文学研读。现在我已经没有那种文学鉴赏功底了，更没有耐心啃完《无尽的玩笑》（Infinite Jest），更别说重读《白鲸》（Moby Dick）或《匹克威克外传》了。不过，你确实比我懂：用 dense（内容密集）来形容，比 verbose（啰嗦）或者我那句略显苛刻的 purple prose（华丽空洞的辞藻）贴切得多。你人真好。不过话说回来，你觉得用 bygone 来作句末词合适吗？我得去查查……
…That style is a slog. I enjoyed a year of intense study in literature back in 1977. I don't have the literary chops anymore, or the patience to get through Infinite Jest, let alone re-read Moby Dick or Pickwick Papers. But, you do know better: dense is a much better word than verbose, or my rather harsh purple prose. You are kind. Still, do you think it's okay to end a sentence with bygone? I'm going to check the…
……立案，并启动了无数其他精巧的机器，用以折磨和摧残陛下的忠顺臣民，同时为法律界从业人员谋取安逸与酬金。”（查尔斯·狄更斯，《匹克威克外传》）
…filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty's liege subjects, and the comfort and emolument of the practitioners of the law." (Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers)
……关于“讽刺指数”。作为一个爱尔兰人，每当我听到有人说“这波繁荣一眼望不到头……这次绝对不会崩”时，我心里就直发毛。引用查尔斯·狄更斯在《匹克威克外传》（1837）里的一句话：“话别说得太绝（Never say never）。”
…about the 'sarcasm quotient'. Coming from Ireland, every time I hear someone say "There's no end of this boom in sight ... it's not going to happen this time", I get scared. To quote Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers(1837) "Never say never."
那个资料来源说他是按每 32 页结一次稿费的。无论如何，至少对于像《匹克威克外传》这样的早期作品，他的报酬似乎是与产出篇幅成正比，而不是和销量或质量挂钩。（到了后期的一些作品，他才开始拿销量分成。）对于那些本身名气还不够大的人来说，这种模式其实挺好的……
That resource says he was paid for every 32 pages. In any case, it seems like for at least some of his early books like The Pickwick Papers, he was paid proportional to volume of output and not to sales/quality. (For some of his later works he earned a percentage of sales.) It's a perfectly fine model for people who aren't already as famous…
……大致在 1830 年到 20 世纪前二十五年或前半叶期间出版，这主要得益于出版成本的下降和识字率的提高。查尔斯·狄更斯在 1836 年出版的《匹克威克外传》中尤为深入地开拓了这一模式。另一部知名作品福尔摩斯系列则于 1887 年问世（《血字的研究》）。更早的小说（数量相对较少）往往是以单行本完整形式面世，……
…published from roughly 1830 through the first quarter or half of the 20th century, driven by falling publication costs and rising literacy. Charles Dickens on particular developed the model, with The Pickwick Papers, published in 1836. Another notable work, the Sherlock Holmes series debuted in 1887 ("A Study in Scarlet"). Earlier novels (relatively few in number) tended to appear as their own works in whole form,…