The firm reckons customers will increasingly use them for ornaments, tchotchkes and the odd coffee-table tome—anything, that is, except books that are actually read.

该公司认为，越来越多的消费者会用这种书柜来摆放装饰品，小摆设，和一些精美的画册等等，除了真正用来阅读的书。

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"Anybody who believes that has forgotten high school" says Albright sipping black coffee at a conference table in the Washington DC offices of the Albright Stonebridge Group her global strategy firm.

奥尔布莱坐她办公室的会议桌边小口地喝着黑咖啡，这是她位于华盛顿特区的全球战略公司奥尔·布莱石桥集团。

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The American firm was unknowingly advertising that "you could use no finer diaper at your dinner table."

这家美国公司没有察觉到它的广告是说“在餐桌上没有比这更好的尿布了”。

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Each firm in the table also has a low Barra Risk Factor, a forecast of future volatility, which was developed by Berkeley, Calif.

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That is the method proposed by Sean Dimin, one of the owners of a firm called Sea to Table.

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Yet for all the sound and fury this provoked in the British papers, there are few firm proposals on the table.

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