I like classic English novels, by writers like Jane Austen or Charles Dickens.

我喜欢简·奥斯汀或查尔斯·狄更斯等作家写的经典英国小说。

All I knew about London was what I read in English detective novels.

我所知道的关于伦敦的一切都是我在英国侦探小说里读到的。

I'm always reading! I like classic English novels, by writers like Jane Austen or Charles Dickens.

我无时无刻都在阅读！我喜欢简·奥斯汀或查尔斯·狄更斯等作家写的经典英国小说。

B. To introduce an English novel.

B.介绍一本英文小说。

It will be like having a meat-tea, or reading an English novel.

这就像喝一顿肉茶，或者读一本英国小说。

Maybe you were reading an English novel, and maybe there's a followup novel.

也许你正在读一本英文小说，也许还有后续小说。

Yes, the first English novels they read is always difficult that most of learners quit later after they start.

是的，他们读的第一本英文小说总是很困难， 大多数学习者在开始之后就放弃了。

Eight years later The Moonstone was published and earned Collins the title the father of the modern English detective novel.

八年后，《月光石》出版并为柯林斯赢得了现代英国侦探小说之父的称号。

Like women in English novels who walked the moors (whatever they were) with their loyal dogs racing at a respectful distance.

她就像英国小说中的女人，走在沼泽地里（不管是什么地方），一群忠实的狗奔跑在她们的身旁，并与她们保持一定的距离以示尊敬。

They wanted one of the inventors of the English novel, so I suggested Daniel Defoe—no, he was a dissenter from the Church of England.

他们想要英国小说的发明者之一，所以我建议丹尼尔·笛福——不， 他是英国国教的异见者。

T S Elliot, another famous writer, said that The Moonstone was the first and greatest of English detective novels, and it is still admired by modem crime writers today.

另一位著名作家T S Elliot说， 《月光石》是第一部也是最伟大的英国侦探小说，时至今日仍为现代犯罪作家所推崇。

I would put words together like that just to keep the language fresh, and when I was nine or ten, I was trying to write a detective novel, an English detective novel, set in London, which I'd never seen.

我会把这些词组合在一起，只是为了保持语言的新鲜感。在我九、十岁的时候，我想写一本侦探小说，一本以伦敦为背景的英国侦探小说，而我从未见过伦敦。