If a piece of literary writing is not limited to a single time, a single place and a single generation, then we consider it as a piece of great writing.

• 如果一部文学作品不仅仅是局限于某一个时间,某一个地点和某一代人,那么我们通常会说,这部作品有着相当的时效性,经得起时间的检验。