The book contains twelve separate stories.

这本书包含十二个独立的故事。

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Twelve years after he published "on the Origin of Species", which described the idea of natural selection, a second book hit the presses.

出版描述自然选择思想的《物种起源》十二载后，他的第二部书也付梓印刷。

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Rejected by twelve publishers, The Fountainhead was finally accepted by Bobbs-Merrill when a young editor taken with the book threatened to quit if it were not.

在被十二家出版社拒绝后，《源泉》终于被博布斯—美林出版社所接受，起因是一位年轻气盛的编辑用这本书威胁出版社，说如果老板不接受这本书，自己就辞职。

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"Cheaper by the Dozen" was the name of a book written by two of the twelve children.

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You have the three major prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, and then the twelve minor prophets, which in the Hebrew Bible get counted together as one book, because those twelve are very small.

先知书里有三大预言家，以塞亚，耶利米和以西结，后来还有12个小先知，他们因为很小所以，全部被收入了一卷。

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For example, around nineteen twelve he finished a nine-book series called "From the Cradle to the Grave."

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But last year he signed a two-book deal with Twelve, an imprint of Hachette, to write his story and hand in another novel.

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It took Princess Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian 17 years to find a publisher for her now twelve-book Tara Duncan fantasy novel series before a publisher in France, where she lives, made the leap in 2003.

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Which points to a problem not just at Twelve but with the entire book publishing industry.

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