VOA慢速英语:Virginia Bookstore Finds the Secret to Success(翻译)

A large bookstore in a small U.S. town has succeeded for many years by giving people a chance to buy a lot of books for a low price.
地处美国一个小镇的一家大书店多年来经营成功，其秘诀就是让人们有用低价买到大量书的机会。

The large and simple bookstore is in the small eastern town of Mount Crawford, Virginia.
这家装修简单的大书店位于弗吉尼亚州克劳福特山的一个东部小镇上。

The Green Valley Book Fair is made up of two large storage buildings totaling 2,300 square meters.
绿谷书市由两处大仓库组成，总占地面积达2300平方米。

Some customers like Zoe Dellinger have been buying books at the store for many years.
像佐伊·迪林杰这样的顾客已经在这个书店买很多年书了。

“I was coming here since I was in my early 20s.The thrill of finding a new book is very serendipitous here because you can’t come and say ‘I’m buying the new Nicholas Sparks book today.’That’s not what this place is about -- this place is about finding wonderful treasures.”
“我20岁出头的时候就来这里买书了。寻找一本新书的感觉是非常刺激的，因为你不能来了之后说‘我今天想买尼古拉斯·斯帕克斯的最新作品。’因为这不是这个地方的宗旨——这个地方的宗旨就是寻找其妙的财宝。”

And those treasures are not costly.
而且这些财宝都不是很贵。

“I found a wonderful book that I wanted.It was very expensive at the time -- 25, 26 dollars was expensive for me to purchase a new book.I found the book here for five dollars.I was so excited, so that has kept me coming back just to see what treasures I’ll find.”
“我找到了一本我想要的很棒的书。当时这本书很贵，要25、26美元，对我来说，要卖一本新书的话这个价格有点贵。我在这里找到了那本书，只卖五美元。我很兴奋，这使我时常回来看看自己能够找到什么。”

The Green Valley Book Fair has 500,000 new and old books about politics, religion, science, travel, cooking and many other subjects.
绿谷书市拥有50万册新旧图书，涉及政治、宗教、科学、旅游以及烹饪等多个种类。

Michele Branner is the manager of the store.
米歇尔·布兰纳是书店的经理。

“My parents actually started this bookstore about 46 years ago. My dad collected old books and then decided that he wanted to sell some of them. And it went so well it’s just kind of evolved to what it is today.”
“我父母大约46年之前开了这家书店。我爸爸收集旧书，后来决定卖出去一些。这种模式运行得很好，慢慢进化成了现在的样子。”

The bookstore is only open six times a year for three weeks.About 25,000 people visit during each period.The store sells about $2 million worth of books every year.
书店每年只开六次，每次三个星期。每次开放的时候，都会吸引约2.5万游客。书店每年都会售出价值近200万美元的图书。

“We buy our books at a fraction of retail and we can sell them for the prices that we do and keep our overhead low.That’s why we, we don’t have any fancy buildings or anything like that.”
“我们以零售价格的一部分买书，这样我们就能以我们能够承担的价格买书，让管理费用保持较低水平。这就是我们不需要花哨装修或者任何类似东西的原因。”

People have visited the store from many American states and from Kenya,Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Russia.
来到书店的游客来自美国的很多州，也有来自肯尼亚、沙特阿拉伯、土耳其和俄罗斯的游客。

Tom Whitton is from the eastern city of Bristol, Connecticut.“We have our whole family with us this time.So we said ‘Oh you gotta see this book fair,’ and so we brought them all here today.It meets every family’s need that likes to read.”
汤姆·韦顿是来自东部城市康奈狄格州布里斯托尔的游客。“这次我们全家都来了。所以我们说‘哦，你得看看这个书市！’于是我们今天就把家人全带来了。它满足了每一个喜欢读书的家庭的需要。”

I’m Christopher Jones-Cruise.
克里斯托夫·琼斯-克鲁斯为您报道。