真正英语高手进！！！！！1

Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom, so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding--joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust.
说到小说；我不会染上小说作者身上常见的那种刻薄无礼的习惯，用蔑视的口吻来贬低这出他们自己还在不断上演的演出――跟他们最大的敌人一起对小说作品使用最严厉的非难之词， 还很少允许他们自己的女主角来读。如果哪天这些女主角拿起一本小说来读，一定会在恶心中把这些平淡无奇的书页翻过去。

大意是小说作者们的文人相轻吧。