一个名不见经传的小小互联网零售商，怎么可能取代全美最大的连锁书店呢？

How could a tiny Internet retailer possibly supplant a national bookstore giant.

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它的市场期票出票人遍及全美各地，通过电话和国际互联网进行交易。

Instead, its market makers are located all over the country and make trades by telephone and via the Internet.

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2010年3月19日是全美断网断电日——让人们从互联网、电视、苹果播放器、全球定位系统和电话中解脱24小时。对这样的倡议我决定置之不理，主要原因是我觉得这样做太过愚蠢。

I decided to ignore the National Day of Unplugging3 -a 24-hour break from the Internet, TV, iPods, GPS and phones-on March 19, 2010 largely because I thought it was stupid.

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