When The Scottish playwright Sir JamesBarrie created the character ofPeter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, he probably did not realizethat nature had beaten him to it.
詹姆斯·巴里在创作彼得·潘这个不愿长大的孩子的时候可能并没有想到，大自然早已领先他一步了。
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Seriously, how many authors today are writing better than Forster, Conrad, JM Barrie, Henry James, Ford Madox Ford or even PG Wodehouse at their best?