If Shakespeare had never existed， he asked， would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilisation depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now than in the time of the Pharaohs?
—To the Lighthouse， Writer， Virginia Woolf
他问道，如果莎士比亚从未存在过，世界会和今天有很大的不同吗？
文明的进程取决于伟大的人吗？
现在普通人的命运有比法老时代更好吗？
——《到灯塔去》弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙，作家
depend upon/on依靠，取决（rely upon/on）
Your happiness does not depend upon him. It depends on yourself.
你的幸福不取决于他，而取决于你自己。
the average human being普通人（作集体名词后接be动词单数）
average adj.普通的（ordinary）
an average day平平无奇的一天
differ from / be different from与……不同
Your interpretation differs from mine./ Your interpretation is different from mine.
你的解读和我的很不一样。
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
如果一个女人要写小说，她必须要有一些钱和一间自己的房间。