The book he most wanted to write was the one which nearly defeated him.

他最想写的书恰恰是几乎难倒他的那一本。

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Has he returned that book you lent him?

你借给他的那本书还你了吗？

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His new book shows him to be a first-rate storyteller.

他的新著表明他讲故事的本领是一流的。

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For example, one student wrote to the American writer Jack London to thank him for writing the book "White Fang."

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Then there came to be questions about whether the scenes, the stories in the book, actually did happen to him.

于是问题出现了，书里的那些情节和故事是否真正在他身上发生过。

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The title of that book, published in 1914, and the one that more than any other made him famous, locates his subjects in a specific geography.

这本书的名称，1914年出版，是这本书让他出名的，把他的主题放在一个具体的地理位置上。

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He got in touch with a speaker bureau, and asked it to book him.

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Cynthia, another agent on duty, helped book him a seat on the earliest flight the next morning.

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An airline agent tried to re-book him on another flight while U.S. Airways corporate security was notified, police said.

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