求翻译：英国作家，十八世纪英国现实主义小说的奠基人。生于商人家庭，早年经商，1692年破产后，从事写作。早年以写政论和讽刺诗著称，反对封建专制，主张发展资本主义工商业。1719年发表第一部长篇小说《鲁滨孙漂流记》，同年又写了续篇。1712年，英国航海家渥地士?罗吉斯的《环球巡航记》披露一件奇闻：一个水手被抛在距智利海岸五百海里的荒岛上，孑然一身，竟能生活了四年多。这件奇闻就成为笛福写作《鲁滨孙漂流记》的题材来源。是什么意思？

British writer, founder of the realistic novel of the eighteenth-century England. Was born in a merchant family in the early years of business, after the 1692 bankruptcy, engaged in writing. Early to write political commentary and satire against the feudal autocracy, advocating the development of ca