In fact, she was out of work before the first book Harry Potter came out.

事实上，在第一部《哈利·波特》出版之前，她就失业了。

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It was all to safeguard a marketing campaign which some believe could come close to achieving sales on a par with Rowling's last Harry Potter book, which sold 3.5m copies in its first eight days.

所有这些举措都是为了保障营销活动的成效，有人相信《消失的符号》的销量将会接近罗琳最新一本《哈利·波特》——该书在开售头八天售出了350万册。

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The latest Harry Potter book sold 9 million copies in its first 24 hours – in English.

哈利波特系列的新书，只算英文版，在上架一天之内就售出了九百万册。

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When the first Harry Potter book appeared, in 1997, it was just a year before the universal search engine Google was launched.

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By far the most anticipated film this fall is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows which hits theaters November 19th. (See the trailer at the bottom of this post.) The film is the first part of the final Potter book and the first Harry Potter film to be shown in 3-D.

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Since the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published, the series has taken the world by storm.

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