Evelyn Waugh
/ˌiːvlɪn ˈwɔː/
/ˌiːvlɪn ˈwɔː/
- (1903-66) an English writer of novels which are greatly admired for their elegant style and humour. In novels such as Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), he made fun of the upper class and upper middle class in England in the 1920s and 1930s. His travels in Africa provided the ideas for novels such as Black Mischief (1932) and Scoop (1938). In 1930 he became a Roman Catholic and his interest in Catholic beliefs is shown in the more serious novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), about an upper-class English Roman Catholic family. Waugh's other books include a series of three with the title Sword of Honour (1952-61), based on his experiences as a soldier in the Second World War. He had a reputation as a bad-tempered, rude man with fixed, rather right-wing views.
伊芙琳·沃（Evelyn Waugh）：（1903-66）一位英国小说作家，以其优雅的风格和幽默而倍受赞誉。在诸如《衰落与秋天》（1928年）和《一把尘土》（1934年）等小说中，他取笑了1920年代和1930年代英国的上层阶级和上层中产阶级。他在非洲的旅行为诸如《黑恶作剧》（1932年）和《瓢》（1938年）之类的小说提供了思想。1930年，他成为罗马天主教徒，他对天主教信仰的兴趣在更严肃的小说《新娘的再造》（Brideshead Revisited，1945年）中得到了体现，该小说讲述了一个上流社会的英国罗马天主教家庭。沃恩的其他著作还包括根据他在第二次世界大战中当兵的经历而编写的三本书系列，其标题为《荣誉之剑》（Sword of Honor，1952-61）。他以脾气暴躁，粗鲁，举止固执，右翼观点而闻名。