The Book of the Month Club was a mail-order book club that started in 1926 and it became an incredibly powerful engine for selling books, just as Oprah's Book Club is today.

月读书友会是一个创立于1926年的邮购书友会6,是图书销售的强大引擎，正如今天的奥普拉书友会一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Milton explains that the Licensing Order of 1643 is ineffective, it's useless because, and I'm quoting here, " order avails nothing to the suppressing of scandalous, seditious, and libellous books, which were mainly intended to be suppressed."

弥尔顿解释说《出版管制法》毫无作用，一无是处，我引用他的话说原因“,因为这个管制法对控制诽谤性的，有煽动性的，中伤他人的需要被控制的书籍毫无用处“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选