The novel, a thinly disguised fictional account of Fitzgerald’s Princeton years, made its author an instant literary success, and a celebrity as well.
我该如何翻译a thinly disguised fictional account of Fitzgerald’s Princeton years?
Dividing his time between the East Coast of the United States and France during the 1920s, Fitzgerald wrote short stories in order to earn enough money to sustain himself and his family between novels.
我该如何翻译sustain himself and his family between novels?
Beset during the late 1920s and early 1930s by his wife’s psychiatric difficulties, which required periodic hospitalization, and by his own financial problems, he did not produce another novel until 1934, when Tender Is the Nightappeared, to mixed reviews and disappointing sales.
请老师分析to mixed reviews and disappointing sales。
1 a thinly disguised fictional account of Fitzgerald’s Princeton years 意思是:这部小说是作者本人在普林斯顿那几年生活的稍加掩饰后的描述。文字你自己整理。
2 作家写小说,卖出去后才会有钱。直到下一步小说写出并卖出去,才能再有钱。二部小说之间这段时间是没有钱的进账的。所以sustain himself and his family between novels 意为,在下一部小说卖出去之前维持他自己和他的家庭的生活。
3 to mixed reviews and disappointing sales 为结果状语,褒贬不一的书评和令人失望的销售。
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