a man of letters

基本解释

He was a man of letters with no interest in current affairs.
他是个文学家，对时事不感兴趣。
As a man of letters, Fraser tends to emphasise rhetoric at the expense of reality.
作为一个文人，弗雷泽往往为了讲究修辞而舍弃真实性。
I replied, “As long as I’m not a man of letters, I’m not subject to any of the rules of literature. Nor do I have to be afraid of being thrown out of any literary circles.”
我说，唯其不是文学家，我就不受文学规律的限制，我也不怕别人把我赶出文学界。
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In one of these letters, a famous letter to his friend, Francesco Vettori a man named Francesco Vettori, he describes how he came to write his most famous book.
其中一封信，是写给他的一位知名友人，名为，他形容自己,如何写就其最著名的大作。
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From an early age he adopted a foppish, bohemian style, and in due course, having thrown over his studies in engineering and the possibility of a legal career, he became a man of letters.
ECONOMIST: Literary lives
The settings, too, are interiors: cramped rooms, generally lent by understanding friends after Coleridge had left his wife and children in the Lake District and decided to become a man of letters in London.
ECONOMIST: English poets
It should come as no surprise that Baker, a distinguished man of letters, should nevertheless be interested in the lees of eroticism.
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