1. These two slots might have been better filled by others, such as Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True, a fabulous book that made the Society's longlist.

这两个空缺可能给另外的一些的书会更好，比如皇家学会初选单中榜上有名的一本绝妙的书，杰里·柯尼人的《什么进化论是真的》。

2. Historical fiction has, self-evidently, done well this year and another on the longlist is Adam Foulds' The Quickening Maze, set in a private asylum used by the Victorian poet John Clare.

无疑，历史小说在今年收获甚丰。 另外一本入围小说，阿当·福尔兹（Adam Foulds）的《加速的迷宫》（The Quickening Maze），则把背景设置在维多利亚时期诗人约翰·克莱尔入住的精神病院里。

3. Of course. The British love literary lists and the fights they provoke, so much so that they divide candidates for the Man Booker Prize into shortlist books and longlist books.

当然，英国人喜欢文学作品名单和他们所引起的争执，以至于他们把布克奖的候选人划分为短单书和长单书。