Had Tolstoi lived at the Priory in seclusion with a married lady 'cut off from what is called the world', however edifying the moral lesson, he could scarcely, I thought, have written WAR AND PEACE.
如果托尔斯泰和一位“与所谓世界隔绝”已婚女士隐居在修道院,无论他如何启发道德教训,我想,他都很难写出《战争与和平》。