sometwo-and-a-halfyearsandtwonovelslater,myexperimentinwhattheAmericansterm"downshifting"hasturnedmytiredexcuseintoanabsolutetrality.中的“novels”是什么意思?请别给我在线翻译之类的东西或答案,请根据

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some two-and -a-half years and two novels later,my experiment in what the Americans term "downshifting" has turned my tired excuse into an absolute trality.中的“novels”是什么意思?
请别给我在线翻译之类的东西或答案,请根据上下文来翻译?

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像是个时间量词
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奇怪的是,大约两年半的时间我写完两部小说后,我这个被美国人称为“放慢生活节奏”的试验,却使我老掉牙的借口变成了现实.