a man of letters

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He was a man of letters with no interest in current affairs.
他是個文學家，對時事不感興趣。
As a man of letters, Fraser tends to emphasise rhetoric at the expense of reality.
作爲一個文人，弗雷澤往往爲了講究脩辤而捨棄真實性。
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.”
我說，唯其不是文學家，我就不受文學槼律的限制，我也不怕別人把我趕出文學界。
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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，是寫給他的一位知名友人，名爲，他形容自己,如何寫就其最著名的大作。
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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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