Before the advancements in technology, young women who wanted a sense of emotional gratification would live vicariously through romance novels.

在科技飞速发展之前，年轻的女性通常通过阅读“浪漫的小说”来达到感情上的满足。

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It may even be that movies have superseded novels not because Americans have grown dumber but because the novel is an obsolete artistic technology.

因此最可能的情况是，电影已经淘汰了小说，并不是因为美国人更笨了，而是小说是一种过时的艺术形式了。

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With improved transport and better technology, the 19th century took books to the masses, novels to young ladies and texts to the new universities.

ECONOMIST: Millennium issue: COMMUNICATION