Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.
— H. L. Mencken  ·  No category

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vastly [['vɑ:stli, 'væstli]] 词频4
adv. 广大地, 许多, 巨大
近义：hugely, immensely, largely, lengthily, astronomically, monumentally 反义：succinctly, briefly, concisely, concretely, definitively, finally
novelist ['nɔvəlist] 词频2 词根: 新
n. 小说家;
"A novelist creates characters and a plot."
小说家塑造人物并设计情节.
近义：fictionist
henry [['henri]]
n. 亨利\\n[医] 亨[利](电感应单位)
近义：enrique
james [[dʒeimz]]
n. 詹姆斯（姓氏, 男子名）；[圣]《雅各书》
近义：jim, diego, jimmy, jaime
stockyard
n. 牲畜围栏
improved
a. 改良的
近义：perfected, upgraded

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