handful of 少数
stylish adj. 时髦的;现代风格的
run foul of 与争吵;同发生冲突;与发生纠葛
steer around 绕过
The proliferation of television channels has created a new stable of authors, and books by television hosts populate bestseller lists. Many are self-help titles. Bai Yansong, a state television presenter, shot up the charts with Are You Happy? and the popularity of Why is our Life so Hard?, a book by a talk-show host, Lang Xianping, says much about peoples concerns that they are not better off, despite a booming economy.
proliferation n. 扩散;繁殖
a stable of 一大批;一大群
shot up 迅速成长;直线上升
better off 经济状况好的;富裕的
booming economy 繁荣的经济;经济蓬勃发展
Some foreign titles win commercial success. Stieg Larssons Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy has sold more than 100,000 copies in Chinese. Yet publishing is a local affair, and even translated titles may be trumped by more popular Chinese imitations. Dan Browns The Da Vinci Code, for example, has been outstripped locally by his Chinese counterpart, He Ma, whose ten-part Tibet Code unearths ancient Tibetan Buddhist secrets.
trilogy 三部曲
trump v. 胜过 n. 王牌;法宝
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