1·We laugh when a great satirist like Swift writes about war in Gulliver's Travels.
当像斯威夫特这样伟大的讽刺作家在《格列佛游记》中描写战争时，我们会大笑。
2·“No man is an island,” the 17th-century English poet, satirist, lawyer and priest John Donne once said.
17世纪的英国诗人、讽刺作家、律师和牧师约翰•多恩曾说过：没人是一座孤岛。
3·He says that as nonfiction has gotten stranger than fiction, it's become harder for a satirist to stay ahead of "the curve of human weirdness."
他说，作为写实文学已经变得比小说类题材更让人陌生，它已经让一个讽刺作家难以在“人类命运曲线”前保持领先地位。
4·One was a droll, sarcastic satirist; the other was a celibate mad scientist.
他们两个，一个是爱开玩笑，语言辛辣的讽刺作家，另一个是过着独身生活的癫狂科学家。
5·"No man is an island," the 17th-century English poet, satirist, lawyer and priest John Donne once said.
17世纪的英国诗人、讽刺作家、律师和牧师约翰·多恩曾说过：没人是一座孤岛。