Over the years public library services have greatly expanded.
多年来，公共图书馆的服务范围已大大扩展。
Has it been a while since your last visit to a public library?
距离你上次去公共图书馆已经过了一段时间了吗？
Edwards was the first librarian of the first British public library.
爱德华兹是英国首个公共图书馆的首位图书管理员。
The earliest public library was established in Philadelphia in 1731.
最早的公共图书馆于1731年在费城建立。
The function of a public library was once described as "less a reservoir than a fountain".
公共图书馆的功能曾被描述为“与其说是水库，不如说是喷泉”。
Alexandra's first public show was held at a Los Angeles public library when she was only eight years old.
亚历山德拉的第一次公开展览是在洛杉矶一家公共图书馆举行的，当时她只有8岁。
The first truly free public library that circulated books to everyone at no cost was started in a small New England town in 1833.
1833年，在新英格兰的一个小镇上，第一家免费向所有人提供图书的公共图书馆成立了。
Yesterday, as I was coming near the front door of our public library, a white-haired gentleman stepped back to hold the door for me.
昨天，在我走近公共图书馆前门时，一位满头白发的绅士后退几步，给我扶门。
Yet the greenest way to read turns out to be old-fashioned. Get books - from a public library.
但是最环保的阅读方法应该是最传统的- - -从公共图书馆借书。
Police last month charged an Iowa City resident with the theft of 53 DVDs from the public library.
上个月，警方指控一名艾奥瓦市民从公共图书馆中窃取53张DVD。
By 1910 three-quarters of the towns in America with more than 2,500 residents had a public library.
到1910年，美国人口超过2500的城镇中，拥有公共图书馆的占了3/4。
Though I've linked to the Amazon pages for each of these books, I encourage you to get them free from your public library.
虽然我提供了每一本书在亚马逊购书的链接，但我鼓励大家从公众图书馆免费借阅。
My parents were just happy I liked to read, and so I - in utter innocence - would wander into the public library and pick up any old thing.
我的父母只要我喜欢阅读就已经非常高兴了，因此我能够怀着赤子之心溜达到公共图书馆里拿起任何一本书来看。
The sample mashup application allows users to search for new books in a public library system that consists of all the libraries in the region.
这个应用程序允许用户在当地所有图书馆组成的公共图书馆系统中搜索新书。
I told her about the apartment and the job I had found for her, about the cultural and social programs available in that part of the city, about the public library.
我告诉了她关于我为她找到的公寓和工作，关于她要生活在的城市里那一地区的文化和社交活动，还提到了公共图书馆。
When I go into a public library now, the place is packed. But it isn't packed with people browsing for books. It is packed with people staring quietly into computer screens.
现在，当我走进一家公共图书馆，我会发现里面坐满了安静的盯着电脑屏幕的人，而不是看书的人。
A tag hung from the neck. It read, in her father's handwriting: "the kind gift of Arthur Detweiler, whom I met in the public library reading room on a rainy March afternoon."
柄上挂了个标签，上面有她父亲的笔迹：阿瑟•德特韦特好心送我的礼物，三月一个下雨的午后，我在公共图书馆与他相逢。
For instance, encourage the kids to look for ways to save money - by borrowing DVDs from the public library instead of renting them, or saving electricity by turning out lights.
例如，鼓励孩子寻求省钱之道——从公共图书馆借dvd而不是花钱去租，或者随手关灯以节约用电。
The Aarhus Public Library in Aarhus, Denmark, takes things a step further.
丹麦的奥胡斯公共图书馆(Aarhus Public Library)则更进一步。
The New York Public Library, she notes, does not hold intellectual property databases.
她指出，纽约公立图书馆没有知识产权数据库。
The New York Public Library offers 33, 000 e-books, compared with roughly 4.8 million paper books.
纽约公共图书馆提供33,000本电子书，与之对应的是大约四百八十万本纸质书籍。
The results of this international small-game hunt have just been published in Public Library of Science Biology.
这个国际搜寻小游戏的结果不久前发表在《公共科学图书馆生物学》杂志上。
The supported organizations include Books for Africa, Room to Read, and the New Orleans Public Library Foundation.
所支持的组织机构包括BooksforAfrica，RoomtoRead，以及新奥尔良公共图书基金。
The filmmakers also dug into a large trove of Milk's papers, love letters and photos at the San Francisco Public Library.
影片制作者还在旧金山公共图书馆里发掘出大量缪克的文件，情书还有照片。
At a dinner held in his honor last night at the New York Public Library, several of his high-powered friends stood by him.
在昨晚纽约公共图书馆举行的招待他的晚宴上，他的一些有权有势的朋友围绕着他。
So pretty soon there were these two peevish boys sitting in her white 1959 Oldsmobile on their way to Detroit Public Library.
所以没过多久，在去底特律公共图书馆的路上，就有两个脾气暴躁的男孩坐在她那辆1959年产的白色奥兹莫比尔汽车上。
The books I borrowed from the New York Public Library weren' t necessarily what you'd expect to find a young sax player reading.
出乎大家所料，我从纽约公共图书馆里借来的那些书，并非年轻萨克斯管乐手的必读书目。
If you have friends or family in Chicago, they are eligible for a limited number of free museum passes from the Chicago Public Library.
假如你有朋友或者家人在芝加哥，你还有机会拿到一定名额的芝加哥公共图书馆的免费通行证。
As Dr. Davies reports in the Public Library of Science, that is not what seems to have happened with at least one piscine antifreeze gene.
正如戴维斯博士在《公共科学图书馆》上发表的报告所述，至少有一种鱼的抗冻基因似乎并不是这样的。
The Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, in North Carolina, has a multimedia space where kids shoot videos and record music.
北卡罗来纳州夏洛特县和梅克伦堡县的公共图书馆(Public Libraryof Charlotte and Mecklenburg County)有一个多媒体的区域，小孩子可以拍摄影片和录制音乐。
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