雅思阅读素材：美国侦探小说大师的阅读清单

　　今天雅思阅读素材给大家带来的是美国侦探小说大

　　The author of the V. I. Warshawski novels, most recently "Critical Mass,"was hugely influenced by "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man": "I felt asthough I'd fallen into words and wanted to drown in them."

　　“女侦探沃莎斯基"系列小说的作者深受《一个青年艺术家的画像》的影响：“我感觉自己好像掉进了文字里，想一直沉浸在其中。"她最近出版了《临界物质》一书。

　　What books are currently on your night stand?

　　你的床头柜上现在放着什么书?

　　I'm trying hard to read Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-FirstCentury" but keep returning to fiction. Right now: John Williams's "Stoner,"Claude Izner's "Strangled in Paris."

　　我努力想读托马斯·皮克迪的《二十一世纪资本论》，但总想转去看小说。现在正在看的是约翰·威廉姆斯的《斯托纳》和克劳德·艾兹内的《巴黎扼杀案》。

　　Who is your favorite novelist of all time? And your favorite novelistwriting today?

　　有史以来你最喜欢的小说家是谁?现在仍在写作的小说家中你最喜欢的是谁?

　　I don't have an all-time favorite. There are books I reread or wish I'dwritten. I love the Victorians: Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, GeorgeEliot, in that order. I loved "Gilead" and "Wolf Hall," which is a staggeringachievement. I reread Barbara Pym and Jane Austen and my old detective favoriteswhen I'm stressed out.

　　我没有最喜欢的小说家。有些小说我会反复读，希望是自己写的。我很喜欢维多利亚时代的小说家：依次是伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔、查尔斯·狄更斯和乔治·艾略特。我很喜欢《基列家书》和《狼厅》，后者是了不起的成就。压力大的时候，我会重读芭芭拉·皮姆和简·奥斯汀的小说以及我最喜欢的老侦探小说。

　　Who are your favorite writers of detective fiction?

　　你最喜欢的侦探小说作家是谁?

　　Margery Allingham among the classics. Peter Dickinson, Dorothy SalisburyDavis, Dorothy Hughes.

　　玛格丽·阿林厄姆是其中一位经典作家。还有彼得·迪金森、多萝西·索尔兹伯里·戴维斯和多萝西·休斯。

　　Which do you consider the best detective stories of all time, and why?

　　你认为有史以来最好的侦探故事是哪些?为什么?

　　Anna Katharine Green, for defining the consulting detective for the 19thcentury; Wilkie Collins, for playing with the form and transforming it; DashiellHammett, for reinventing the form for the 20th century; the Holmes oeuvre, formaking detective fiction popular in both Great Britain and America; Amanda Crossand Lillian O'Donnell, for opening the door that enabled Marcia Muller, LindaBarnes, Sue Grafton and me to challenge the form in new ways.