1. The novelist has set the story in a quiescent melancholy of the town.
    这个小说家把故事安排发生在一个安静的忧郁的小镇。

2. Yes,he´s a popular novelist.
    是的, 他是一位受欢迎的小说家.

3. Yet, in real life, circumstances do sometimes conspire to bring about coincidences which anyone but a nineteenth century novelist would find incredible.
    不过，在现实生活中，有时确实会出现一些巧合，这些巧合除了19世纪小说家外谁也不会相信。

4. She makes a rather precarious living as a novelist.
    她当小说家, 过著不太稳定的生活.

5. In the nineteenth century, a novelist would bring his story to a conclusion by presenting his readers with a series of coincidences -- most of them wildly improbable.
    在19世纪，小说家常在小说结尾处给读者准备一系列的巧合--大部分是牵强附会，极不可能的。