The writer characterized the protagonist in his latest novel as lazy and selfish.

作家把他最近一部小说中主人公的性格描述惰自私。

The characters in this novel are rather overdrawn.

这小说中的人物描写得有些夸张。

The villain of the novel is polished off in the last chapter but one.

小说中的那个坏蛋在书中倒数第二章被干掉了。

Yet look in the periphery of such allegorical tales and you can find some surprisingly accurate vaticination.

不过在此类讽喻性质的科幻小说中的一些细枝末节里却能够发现一些预测惊人的准确。

Custer's legendary last stand.

卡斯特小说中传奇式的最后一搏。

As a typologic literature, wuxia-novel has formed it's own particular and fixed narrative syntax and archetypal factor in the long-term evolvement.

武侠小说作为一种类型文学，在长期的演变过程中形了自身独特而相对固定的事语法和原型性因素，江湖就是武侠小说事语法中的原型性因素之一。

"Ligeia", which Poe thought his best grotesque story, is now, for most readers, a jumble of morbid self-pity, diabolism, and gimcrack Gothicism.

波自认《莉盖娅》是他怪诞小说中的上品，现在大部分读者认为不过是病态自怜，魔鬼附身，浮华怪诞的大杂烩而已。