__10__
as a researcher and bilingual secretary.The best thing about working in an office,she has said,was __11__ up stories on the computer when no one was __12__.During this time,on a particularly long train ride from Manchester to London in the summer of 1990,the idea __13__
her of a boy who is a wizard and doesn't know it.He __14__
a school for wizardry—she could see him very plainly in her mind.By the time the train
__15__
into Kings Cross station four hours later,many of the characters and the early stages of the plot were fully
__16__
in her head.The story took further shape as she continued working on it in
__17__ and cafes over her lunch hours.
After her marriage to a Portuguese TV journalist ended in divorce,Rowling returned to Britain with her infant daughter and a suitcase full of Harry Potter notes and
__18__.She settled in Edinburgh to be near her sister and
__19__
to finish the book before looking for a teaching job.Wheeling her daughter's carriage around the city to escape their
__20__,cold apartment,she would duck into coffee shops to write when the baby fell asleep.In this way she finished the book and started sending it to publishers.
Notes:
measle n.麻疹 ②bilingual adj.双语的
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