• adj. 新奇的；異常的
• n. 小說
• n. (Novel)人名；(法、西、英)諾韋爾

來自拉丁語novus,新的，詞源同new,-el,小詞后綴。引申詞義新事物，新故事，后特別用于指一種文學體裁，即小故事，小說（長篇小說）。

novel

novel: English has acquired the word novel in several distinct instalments. First to arrive was the adjective, ‘new’ [15], which came via Old French from Latin novellus, a derivative of novus ‘new’ (to which English new is distantly related). (The Old French derived noun novelte had already reached English as novelty [14].) Next on the scene was a now obsolete noun novel ‘new thing, novelty’ [15], which went back to Latin novella, a noun use of the neuter plural of novellus.

In Italian, novellus became novello, and this was used in storia novella, literally ‘new story’, a term which denoted ‘short story’. English adopted this as a third novel [16], at first referring specifically to Italian short stories of the type written by Boccaccio, but by the mid- 17th century being extended to a longer ‘prose narrative’ (the original Italian novella was reborrowed in the early 20th century for a ‘short novel’).

English is also indebted to Latin novus for nova [19] (etymologically a ‘new star’) and novice [14].

novel (adj.)

"new, strange, unusual," early 15c., but little used before 1600, from Old French novel, nouvel "new, young, fresh, recent; additional; early, soon" (Modern French nouveau, fem. nouvelle), from Latin novellus "new, young, recent," diminutive of novus "new" (see new).

novel (n.)

"fictitious narrative," 1560s, from Italian novella "short story," originally "new story," from Latin novella "new things" (source of Middle French novelle, French nouvelle), neuter plural or fem. of novellus (see novel (adj.)). Originally "one of the tales or short stories in a collection" (especially Boccaccio's), later (1630s) "long work of fiction," works which had before that been called romances.

A novel is like a violin bow; the box which gives off the sounds is the soul of the reader. [Stendhal, "Life of Henri Brulard"]

1. The various elements of the novel fail to cohere.

這部小說的各部分之間缺乏連貫性。

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2. The scriptwriter helped him to adapt his novel for the screen.

編劇幫助他將其所著小說改編成電影。

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3. D H Lawrence immortalised her in his novel "Women in Love". D.H.

勞倫斯在小說《戀愛中的女人》中把她塑造成了一個不朽的角色。

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4. This adaptation perfectly captures the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut's novel.

這次改編非常好地抓住了庫爾特·馮內古特小說的精髓。

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5. "Dottie" is by far his best novel to date.

《多蒂》是他迄今為止最好的小說。

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