Finally, it was Robert Plath, who was an airline pilot, who invented a new, wheeled suitcase, which he patented in 1991.

后来一个叫罗伯特·普拉斯的飞行员，发明了一种滚轮行李箱，并且在1991年取得专利权。

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sent Agri-Plas an e-mail about this job and actually I interviewed,

我向普拉斯农产品公司发送邮件，然后就经过了面试，

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It's huge. There is no more powerful marketing force in contemporary fiction than Oprah's Book Club.

这很可观，就现代小说而言,没有能与奥普拉的书友会相提并论的营销力量。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So platina is like a diminutive of silver, but we now know that platinum is far superior to silver It is far more noble. It has a higher melting point, a higher chemical inertness, a fantastic metal.

所以普拉塔就像一个小小的银，但我们现在知道普拉塔比银要好很多,更为珍贵，熔点更高，化学惰性更高，是一种非常不可思议的金属。

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Raise your hand. And the rest of you,when you go-- on the north shore--north slope of the acropolis, beyond the agora, there is the area of Athens known as the Plaka.

去过的请举手,那么剩下的没去过的同学,当你们去雅典的时候,在卫城北部海岸...,在卫城的北坡,集市的后面,有一个地方叫做普拉卡

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And there's considerable controversy " as to whether the Tony Soprano method of insight, where you get this insight and there's discovery, "Oh, now I know," makes any real difference in alleviating symptoms such as anxiety disorders or depression.

对于能够使托尼·瑟普拉诺了解自我,并有所发现的感慨“现在我明白了，的这种自省方法,是否真的能够减轻“,诸如焦虑障碍或抑郁这样的病症症状,还存在着极大的争议。

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She's thinking about putting it on her book club, and--if any of you know anything getting on Oprah's Book Club makes your sales for the next 20 years.

她在考虑把你的书放到她的书友会里，如果你们中有人知道一些关于现代文学的事情的话,进入奥普拉书友会的书在,以后的二十年都会有好销路的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It even does wonders for Tolstoy when Tolstoy gets on So you get on Oprah's Book Club. Oprah asks for the proofs for your novel She takes them. She says, "This is great, but you know what?

当托尔斯泰的书进了书友会,所以你进入了书友会，奥普拉要预读你的小说,她拿到书，说，“很不错，但知道吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Plata is silver.

普拉塔是银。

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The Book of the Month Club was a mail-order book club that started in 1926 and it became an incredibly powerful engine for selling books, just as Oprah's Book Club is today.

月读书友会是一个创立于1926年的邮购书友会6,是图书销售的强大引擎，正如今天的奥普拉书友会一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Imagine this is Oprah.

假象她是奥普拉。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The best work on this has been done by Elissa Newport and Sam Supalla who have studied people who have been in the United States for many, many years like 30, 40 years and seeing how well they have come to speak English.

在这方面最佳的研究,是由伊莉萨·纽波特,和萨姆·苏普拉所进行的,他们研究了在美国生活了,三四十年以上的人们,探究了这些人们讲英语的流利程度

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