来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第26集 第26集》

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  One is the rise of the mass market and that changes...Well,
  一个是自由市场的兴起 这改变了
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  actually I would say three things.
  事实上我想说的是三件事
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  The rise of the mass market changes the relationship between readership
  自由市场的崛起改变了文学作品与读者
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  and the literature that's out there.
  原有的关系
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  So, it used to be that "high literature" was not published in
  文学写作一直都被视做高雅的艺术而
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  paperback, but the rise of the mass-market paperback meant that
  不以平装书问世 而这巨大市场的兴起
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  suddenly books that would never be accessible to a sort of average
  给出版市场带来了活力 这意味着
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  middle-class or working-class person suddenly became so.
  中产或是工薪阶层的人拥有了阅读的机会
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  So, it's a huge watershed in the demographics of readership.
  这便是读者数量激增的分水岭
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  So, that's one reason. A second reason is related to this,
  这也是第一个原因 其二 大萧条后
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  and that's that hundreds of thousands of men came back and
  成千上万从未从受到大学教育的士兵们
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  went to college on the GI Bill who had never been to college before.
  借助退伍军人权利法案的颁布圆了大学梦