“Open City” has been a surprise word-of-mouth bestseller since it was published five months ago in America.

《不设防之都》自从五个月前在美国出版后，就成了口碑良好的畅销书籍，这是一大惊喜。

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Beginning in 1967, Bukowski wrote the column "Notes of A Dirty Old Man" for Los Angeles' Open City, an underground newspaper.

从1967年开始，布可夫斯基开始为洛杉矶的一家地下报纸《不设防之城》（Open City）写专栏——专栏名为“老淫棍手记”（Notes of A Dirty Old Many）。

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When Open City was shut down in 1969, the column was picked up by the Los Angeles Free press along with NOLA Express in New Orleans, Louisiana..

1969年，《不设防之城》被关闭，专栏内容被洛杉矶自由出版社和路易斯安那州新奥尔良的《诺拉快报》(NOLA Express)编选出版。

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Lin's design for the new Museum of Chinese in America building in New York City is to open this summer.

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One side was dense honeysuckle. The other was open and slanted down to a telescoped view of the city. The white cloud was directly in front of them.

一边是浓密的金银花，另一边很开阔，倾斜的路面,向人们展示了整座城市的缩影，那朵白云在他们正前方。

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It's a fantastic city. It's very liberal and very open.

这是个很棒的城市。很自由、很开放。

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Petersburg is an open city which historically has united various cultures.

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It's a very open city, you have open spaces and parks.

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The series took more than a decade to travel to the U.S., where the first four books were published by a small press, Open City Books, and sold modestly.

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