作者打算在故事连载结束后将其集合出版成书。

When the story is finished, the authors plan to release it as a book.

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我去年在报纸上读过这故事的分期连载。

I read instalments of the story in the newspaper last year.

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《青年与时代》是一个周刊，发表了他那二万一千字的连载故事的三分之二便倒闭了，得到那十六块钱的希望也就随之破灭。

YOUTH and AGE was a weekly, and it had published two-thirds of his twenty-one-thousand-word serial when it went out of business. With it went all hopes of getting his sixteen dollars.

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