Yet as I ride along this fashionable avenue in August, and watch the procession of the young and fair,—as I look at stately houses, from each of which has gone forth13 almost within my memory a funeral or a bride,—then every thoroughfare of human life becomes in fancy but an ocean shore, with its ripples14 and its wrecks. One learns, in growing older, that no fiction can be so strange nor appear so improbable as would the simple truth; and that doubtless even Shakespeare did but timidly transcribe15 a few of the deeds and passions he had personally known. For no man of middle age can dare trust himself to portray16 life in its full intensity17, as he has studied or shared it; he must resolutely18 set aside as indescribable the things most worth describing, and must expect to be charged with exaggeration, even when he tells the rest.

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n.沉船( wreck的名词复数 );(事故中)遭严重毁坏的汽车(或飞机等);(身体或精神上)受到严重损伤的人;状况非常糟糕的车辆(或建筑物等)v.毁坏[毁灭]某物( wreck的第三人称单数 );使(船舶)失事,使遇难,使下沉 | |
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v.抄写,誉写;改编(乐曲);复制,转录 | |
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portray
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v.描写,描述;画(人物、景象等) | |
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