Of two Writers one was brilliant but indolent; the other though dull, industrious1. They set out for the goal of fame with equal opportunities. Before they died the brilliant one was detected in seventy languages as the author of but two or three books of fiction and poetry, while the other was honoured in the Bureau of Statistics of his native land as the compiler of sixteen volumes of tabulated2 information relating to the domestic hog3.
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1 industrious | |
adj.勤劳的,刻苦的,奋发的 | |
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2 tabulated | |
把(数字、事实)列成表( tabulate的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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3 hog | |
n.猪;馋嘴贪吃的人;vt.把…占为己有,独占 | |
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