1·Very much a Yankee, Mr. Updike was the great white Protestant writer in a literary era that was dominated by Jews: Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Philip Roth.
厄普代克这个典型的美国人，他是一个伟大的白人新教徒作家，当时的文学时代由犹太人统治：索尔·贝娄、诺曼·梅勒和菲利普·罗斯。
2·In Cold Blood, which he immodestly heralded as a new form of non-fiction novel, was received with delirious approval; Norman Mailer dubbed Perry as one of the great characters in American literature.
他用《冷血》毫不客气地宣称了“非虚构小说”的到来，随后他受到了狂乱的追捧。诺曼·梅勒将佩里称为美国文学里最伟大的人物之一。
3·Mailer was brave. That was his virtue of virtues.
梅勒是个勇者，这是他最大的有点。
4·But he began writing short stories, and when he won a collegiate literary prize, Norman Mailer knew that his true calling was as a writer.
但是，他开始写短篇小说，在他获大学文学奖时，诺曼·梅勒知道自己真正该成为一名作家。
5·Once Mailer, with a sparkle in his eye that was maybe aggression, maybe fun, acting his usual part of the hollering Jewish leprechaun, proclaimed that all women should be locked in cages.
有一回，带着不知是敌对还是戏谑的眼光，梅勒以其常见的犹太式的怒吼，声称所有的女人都应该被关进笼子。