Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
Stories are the way we make sense of the world.
我的父母一直认为……炎热的天气会助长年轻人的放荡行为。
The novel is a great discovery: far greater than Galileo's telescope or somebody else's wireless. The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.