Guanghua Bookshop as a stand-alone bookshop may face a loss, because profits from selling print books are slim and rents in central London are high.

光华书店作为一家独立书店可能会面临亏损，因为出售纸质书的利润微薄，而且伦敦市中心的租金也很高。

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Compared with face-to-face communication, books often provide a better medium for changing people's beliefs.

与面对面的交流相比，书籍往往是改变人们信念的更好媒介。

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Harry Potter might receive lessons in defense against the dark arts, but fans of J.K.Rowling's books will be helpless in the face of the most powerfully marketed book in British publishing history.

哈利·波特可能会在魔法学校学到如何对抗邪恶势力，但面对这本英国出版史上促销力度最大的书，J·K·罗琳的追随者们却无计可施。

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Sometimes she virtually drags them into the classroom where they face books and blackboards for the first time - and experience the discipline of lessons.

BBC: The harsh necessity of child labour

Although the losses that banks face in their loan books are ugly, they should be more predictable.

ECONOMIST: Rebuilding the banks

When I was growing up, the kind of people who today are lamenting the decline of physical books in the face of e-reading were busy bemoaning the decline of independent bookstores in the face of ruthless national chains.

FORBES: A Farewell to Borders