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novella

/noh-vel-uh/US // noʊˈvɛl ə //UK // (nəʊˈvɛlə) //

长篇小说,小说,中篇小说,小說

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural no·vel·las, no·vel·le [noh-vel-ee, -vel-ey]. /noʊˈvɛl i, -ˈvɛl eɪ/.

    • : a tale or short story of the type contained in the Decameron of Boccaccio.
    • : a fictional prose narrative that is longer and more complex than a short story; a short novel.

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Examples

  • We named him after the author whose novella about fly-fishing and Montana transformed both.

  • The list of her accomplishments and career highlights is large enough to fill a Proust-sized tome, but when it comes to the woman behind the resume, very little is known—barely a novella’s worth.

  • Variety reported yesterday HBO is developing a series based on Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg, a series of novellas that takes place 90 years before the events of Game of Thrones.

  • And in some ways [the novella at the end of the collection] “Jack and the Mad Dog” just sort of set me free.

  • Morgan, beamed in as ever from a planet far from ours, delivered a mini-novella, dedicated to these people being “part of me.”

  • I see my novella as being part of that—as part of the social discourse.

  • I tried to make that clear in the author's note at the start of the novella, but it seems that I was not emphatic enough.

  • The surprise is that the 127-page novella is far from terrible and creepy.

  • Una novella boccaccesca in azione nel secolo xv, p. 419 et seq.

  • Landau, M., La novella di messer Torello e le sue attinenze mitiche e leggendarie, in Giornale stor.

  • The most remarkable exception is Santa Maria Novella, which has an elaborate facing of black and white marble.

  • In other words the novella was actually (though still in miniature) a novel in nature as well as in name.

  • Rinaldo agreed, and marched with all his company to S. Maria Novella.