J.B. Priestley's “Angel Pavement” (1930) offers a latter-day Dickensian tale of cheats, bankruptcy and failed firms.

J.B.普里斯特利的《天使街》（1930）则是近代的狄更斯翻版，讲述欺骗，破产和倒闭的公司。

It's hot buttered rum. It's delicious. - It's Dickensian.

热奶油朗姆酒，很好喝 - 狄更斯的。

Today, the adjective Dickensian often implies squalid working or living conditions.

今天，Dickensian 这个形容词通常就是在描述悲惨的工作或生活环境。

As London has grown in all dimensions, authors have chosen to present a segment of it rather than a Dickensian sweep.

随着伦敦全面发展，作家不再像狄更斯一样力求面面俱到，而是择其一二展开阐述。

Except, of course, we weren't Dickensian characters.

当然， 除了我们不是狄更斯笔下的人物。

It sounds like you're working in a sort of Dickensian solicitor's house.

听起来你在狄更斯式的律师之家工作。

Has June also got a fondness for sneaking your leftover curry out of the refrigerator in the dead of night like a Dickensian street urchin?

琼是否也喜欢像狄更斯式的街头顽童一样在夜深人静时偷偷从冰箱里拿出剩下的咖喱？

I shall not abandon the facts, he concluded with typical Dickensian panache, until there shall have been a considerable Spontaneous Combustion of the testimony on which human occurrences are usually received.

“我不会放弃事实，”他以典型的狄更斯式的豪言壮语总结道，“一直到大众广泛接受诸多关于人体自燃现象的证明为止。”

He, too, could have come out of a book of Dickensian eccentrics, although perhaps Ebenezer Scrooge or Thomas Gradgrind comes to mind rather than the kindly old Mr.

他也可能出自一本狄更斯式的怪人书，尽管可能想到的是 Ebenezer Scrooge 或 Thomas Gradgrind，而不是善良的老先生。

Now, this is the Gene Wilder version of Charlie and the Chocolate factory, and the parts I remembered so far was Charlie Buck… well, I don't know if his name's Charlie Bucket or that's some Dickensian character.

现在，这是吉恩·怀尔德版的《查理和巧克力工厂》，到目前为止我记得的部分是查理·巴克… … 好吧，我不知道他的名字是查理·巴克特还是狄更斯笔下的某个人物。