My job as a book critic used to elicit envy at cocktail parties, with people fantasising about a life spent reading. Now it’s more likely to trigger sheepish admissions from partygoers about not reading as much as they’d like to — as if I’m going to spring a pop quiz on Moby-Dick.
我作爲書評人的工作過去常常在雞尾酒會上引起羨慕，人們幻想著過上讀書的生活。現在，這份工作更可能讓聚會上的人們不好意思地承認他們沒有讀到自己想讀的那麼多書——彷彿我會突然對他們進行《白鯨》(Moby-Dick)的測驗。
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