A section of the reading public has an insatiable appetite for dirty stories about the famous.

阅读大众中有一部分人对名人的风流韵事的欲望总是无法满足。

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But once the reading public had gotten a taste of Agatha's work, her success as an author was assured.

不过，一旦读者领略到阿加莎作品的魅力，她成为一名成功作家的命运也就确定无疑了。

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This month, 633 titles will be published in French, in a ritual known as la rentrée littéraire, a publishing blitz that the reading public finds increasingly bewildering.

在这个月一个名为“文学归来”（la rentrée littéraire）的仪式上，法国将要发行633部小说，这场出版业的闪电战让阅读圈感到越来越困惑。

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Now as I mentioned, the title of this piece was originally A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, and it seems actually to have been known by the reading public by this title for a good hundred years or so.

现在正如我提到的，这部作品的标题,最初是拉德洛城堡里上演的《面具》,它似乎已经在好几百年前,就因为这个标题被广大读者熟知了。

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The book has to be tested. It has to be tried by the public, by a reading public, before it can be censored.

这本书必须检测，它必须被大众检测，在它被控制之前。

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In 1950, its circulation stood close to eight and a half million, an astonishing command of the reading public, but had since fallen to around six million.

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However, those who look for larger ideas will be rewarded with an important insight which may bring new admirers to Ruskin's works, so long neglected by the reading public.

ECONOMIST: Art history

Of course, whether you publish yourself or through the traditional channels, selling enough to become a millionaire is still dependent on something completely outside of your control the often random taste of the reading public.

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