John Updike is a famous novelist and poet of United States.

约翰·厄普代克是美国当代著名的小说家和诗人.

Mr. Updike said he admired “that open-ended Zen quality they have, the way they don’t snap shut.”

厄普代克说，他很欣赏“它们开放式结局的禅宗意味，它们没有戛然而止的结尾。”

I had read Tyler and Updike and Steinbeck and Gaitskill. I did not have a single story of America.

我读过泰勒、厄普代克、斯坦贝克以及盖茨克尔。因此，我对美国的了解并不是来自单一的故事。

John Updike is a copious writer having a great influence on the contemporary American literary history.

约翰·厄普代克是当代美国文学史上颇有影响的多产作家.

The stories were by such authors as John Updike, Roald Dahl, Anton Chekhov, Agatha Christie, and Raymond Carver.

作者有约翰.厄普代克，罗尔德·达尔，契科夫，阿加莎和雷蒙德·卡佛。

He quotes Updike describing the facts of life as “unbearably heavy, weighted as they are with our personal death.

他引用厄普代克描述的生活真相“是无法承受之重，重若将要一直伴随着我们到死。

In 1976, Cheever received a false report that Updike had died and was moved to record the following tribute in his journal.

1976年，奇弗受到一份虚假的报道说厄普代克已去世，感动之余他在的日记里记下了下面的吊念之词.