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亚马逊畅销榜榜首:266页空白页的美国政治宣言图书
2017-03-13 11:36
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Amazon.com’s bestseller list has been topped by a US political manifesto with a twist - all 266 pages are blank.
266页空白页的美国政治宣言图书登上亚马逊的畅销书榜榜首。
Reasons To Vote For Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide contains no words other than page headings and a bibliography.
《为民主党投票的原因:一本综合指南》除了页面标题和参考书目之外不包含其他内容。
You can go cover-to-cover in about 15, 20 seconds, author Michael Knowles, a conservative journalist, told Fox News.
“你可以在大约15,20秒内从封面翻到封底”,保守派记者迈克尔·诺尔斯对福克斯新闻说。
A one-word cover review of the literary phenomenon-cum-political joke simply reads: "Thorough".
封面的一个单词评论简单地写着“彻底”,俨然是文学现象和政治笑话结合。
The viral popularity of Mr Knowles’ $8 (?6.6) paperback page-turner follows days of publicity in conservative media.
在保守媒体上宣传了几天后,这本售价8美元,由诺尔斯先生撰写的平装书病毒式地流行起来。
It took a very long time to research this book, said the writer, a journalist for the Daily Wire website.
该书作者兼Daily Wire网站的记者说,“研究这本书花了很长时间”。
When I observed their record and reasons to vote for them - on reasons of economics or foreign policy or homeland security or civil rights and so on - I realised it was probably best to just leave all the pages blank.
“当我观察他们的记录和投票给他们的理由时,无论是经济或外交政策,或国土安全,或民事权利的原因,我意识到最好是把所有的页面留空。”
Among the more than 1,200 mostly sarcastic reviews on Amazon, one purchaser noted: "If Democrats copied and pasted the contents of this book into their national platform they could become unstoppable."
在亚马逊的1200多个讽刺评论中,一个购买者指出:“如果民主党人将这本书的内容复制并粘贴到他们的国家平台上,他们就会变得不可阻挡了。”
Another wrote that "even my 2 year old can now understand the benefits of liberalism", adding that it had now become "her favorite book to scribble in".
另一个人写道,“即使我2岁的孩子现在可以理解自由主义的好处,”补充说,现在这本书已成为“她最喜欢的用来涂涂画画的书。”
The self-published work follows a similar work on the opposite end of the political spectrum.
即政治谱的另一端类似的作品出现后,该书作者自出版了这本书。
Why Trump Deserves Trust, Respect and Admiration, with 206 blank pages, debuted in November. That political tome currently also has a 4.5 out of 5 star rating on Amazon.
《为什么特朗普需要信任,尊重和敬仰》也包含206页空白页,在11月首次亮相。这本政治书目目前在亚马逊评级为4.5星。
"Despite years of research, we could not find anything to say on this subject, so please feel free to use this book for notes," the description of the book reads.
“尽管做了多年的研究,我们没有找到任何内容说明这个问题,所以请随时用这本书来作为笔记,”该书的描述如此写道。
(编辑:何莹莹)