1. As the painting's biographer, Donald Sassoon, dryly notes, "In reality the effect can be obtained from any portrait." 正如这幅画的传记作者唐纳德·沙逊枯燥无味地指出，“实际上，这种效果可以从任何一幅肖像画中获得。”
2. JOAN HASLIP, 82, popular biographer of such historical figures as France's Marie Antoinette and Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. 82岁的琼·哈斯利普（JOAN HASLIP）是法国的玛丽·安托瓦内特（Marie Antoinette）和墨西哥的皇帝马克西米兰（Maximilian of Mexico）等历史人物的著名传记作家。
3. The biographer has to dance between two shaky positions with respect to the subject. 传记作者不得不在与主题有关的两个摇摆不定的位置之间跳来跳去。
4. Because Naipaul tells them to his authorized biographer. 是奈保尔告诉他的传记作者French的。
5. "They can't possibly stick with it," says Murdoch's biographer, Michael Wolff. “他们不可能死守不放的，”默多克的传记作者迈克尔·伍尔夫说。
