My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

  • -- Wilbur Smith 威尔伯·史密斯

我的第一部小说被一些世界上最著名的出版商拒绝了。重新开始是件很痛苦的事。

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Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

出版商自然厌恶二手书,并制定了打压二手市场的策略。每三到四年,他们就会推出新的、甚至更昂贵的流行教科书,这是一个经典的计划淘汰周期。

The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.

喜剧演员们都以一首歌结束了他们的表演。他们会从歌曲出版商那里得到一定数量的钱,然后用这些钱付给作者。他们都没有为他们的喜剧材料付多少钱,但这一切都加起来了。

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.

不少杰出的学者也提出了同样的要求,敦促我不要再因为害怕而拒绝为数学学生的共同利益而放弃我的工作。