单词man of letters
n.: 学者；文人；作家
文人；作家:
a man who is a writer, or who writes about literature
学者;文人;作家
Ts"ui Pen was a fine novelist but he was also a man of letters who, doubtless, considered himself more than a mere novelist.
彭寂是个天才的小说家，但也是一个文学家，他绝不会认为自己只是个写小说的。
He was a pure man of letters, untimely born in a world that had no need of letters.
他是个地道的文人，不逢时地生在一个不需要学问的世界里。
According to Thomson this man was a sixth-grade mandarin official and a man of letters who possessed two degrees in imperial examinations.
据汤姆逊所说，照片中的男人，是一位六品官，在科举考试中曾取得过举人头衔。
No doubt. But renounce his liberty! Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters!
一千五百法郎！当然不错。但是放弃自由！当一种书役！一种雇用文人！
It was then the fashion in Bengal to assign each man of letters a place in comparison with a supposed compeer in the West.
在当时的孟加拉，人们时兴给每个文人指定一个与西方某作家相类似的地位。
The chief commander of China"s cultural revolution, he was not only a great man of letters but a great thinker and revolutionary.
鲁迅是中国文化革命的主将，他不但是伟大的文学家，而且是伟大的思想家和伟大的革命家。
Walt Whitman inciting the American eagle to soar was of considerable importance to the native man of letters.
惠特曼激励美国之鹰凌空翱翔，这是对于美国文人至关重要的一件大事。
In so faithfully maintaining and adding to it, he has earned a place apart as a contemporary man of letters.
通过忠诚如一地坚守与不断为之，他赢得了区别于暂时笔者的一方领域。
As the French man of letters Francois Mauriac quipped, "I love Germany so much I"m glad there are two of them. "
法国作家弗朗索瓦·莫里亚克（FrancoisMauriac）调侃地写道：“我如此喜欢德国，真高兴现在有了两个”。
Su Manshu was a man of letters and translator in modern China.
苏曼殊是广东珠海人，也是中国近代的文学家和翻译家。