美國(guó)前總統(tǒng)奧巴馬卸任后的首部作品《應(yīng)許之地》，于11月17日在全球各地以25種語(yǔ)言同時(shí)出版。這本書(shū)是奧巴馬回憶錄的第一卷。全書(shū)披露了他的不少家庭生活細(xì)節(jié)，也以2011年5月為時(shí)間截止點(diǎn)，回顧了在第一任總統(tǒng)期間，奧巴馬應(yīng)對(duì)金融危機(jī)、推出醫(yī)改法案、美軍擊斃本·拉登等重大事件的決策過(guò)程?！稇?yīng)許之地》一經(jīng)出售就登上圖書(shū)暢銷(xiāo)榜榜首。

Barack Obama is well on his way to becoming the bestselling author of the year.

美國(guó)前總統(tǒng)貝拉克·奧巴馬即將成為年度暢銷(xiāo)書(shū)作家。

It is a title previously bestowed on his wife, Michelle Obama, whose book "Becoming" rocketed to the top of the charts in 2018.

他的妻子米歇爾·奧巴馬曾贏得過(guò)這個(gè)稱(chēng)號(hào)，她所著的《成為：米歇爾·奧巴馬自傳》在2018年飆升至圖書(shū)銷(xiāo)售榜榜首。

bestow [b??st??]：vt.授予

Now the former president's new memoir, "A Promised Land," is breaking records for the book's publisher, Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

如今，這位前總統(tǒng)的新回憶錄《應(yīng)許之地》正在打破該書(shū)出版商、企鵝蘭登書(shū)屋旗下的皇冠出版社的紀(jì)錄。

“A Promised Land” offers Obama’s take on some of his most notable moments in office, from wrestling a global financial crisis to passing the Affordable Care Act.

從應(yīng)對(duì)全球金融危機(jī)到通過(guò)《平價(jià)醫(yī)療法案》，《應(yīng)許之地》記錄了奧巴馬執(zhí)政期間最重要的一些時(shí)刻。

take [te?k]：（非正式）看法，態(tài)度

The first of two volumes, this initial 768-page release is what Obama described in a September statement as “an honest accounting of my presidential campaign and my time in office, the key events and people who shaped it, my take on what I got right and the mistakes I made, and the political, economic, and cultural forces that my team and I had to confront then — and that as a nation we are grappling with still.”

《應(yīng)許之地》是奧巴馬兩卷回憶錄中的第一卷，共計(jì)768頁(yè)。奧巴馬在9月的一份聲明中說(shuō)，這本書(shū)“誠(chéng)實(shí)地講述了我的總統(tǒng)競(jìng)選和執(zhí)政時(shí)期，關(guān)鍵事件和影響決策的人，我的正確決定和我所犯的錯(cuò)誤，以及當(dāng)時(shí)我和團(tuán)隊(duì)必須面對(duì)的政治、經(jīng)濟(jì)和文化力量。美國(guó)如今仍在努力解決這些問(wèn)題。”

The publisher has yet to announce the release date of the second volume.

出版商尚未公布第二卷的發(fā)行日期。

Hundreds of thousands of people pre-ordered "A Promised Land" ahead of Tuesday's release date.

在11月17日正式發(fā)售之前，已有數(shù)十萬(wàn)人預(yù)訂了這本書(shū)。

Those pre-order sales, plus first-day sales, totaled 887,000 units "in all formats and editions in the US and Canada," Penguin Random House said on Wednesday.

企鵝蘭登書(shū)屋11月18日表示，在美國(guó)和加拿大，該書(shū)“各種版本”的預(yù)訂量加上首日銷(xiāo)量總計(jì)達(dá)88.7萬(wàn)冊(cè)。

The publisher said this result represented "the largest first-day sales total for any book ever published" by the company.

這家出版商表示，這是公司“有史以來(lái)出版的圖書(shū)中首日銷(xiāo)量最高的”。

By comparison, Bill Clinton’s “My Life” sold around 400,000 copies on its first day and George W. Bush’s “Decision Points” around 220,000, with sales for each memoir currently between 3.5 million and 4 million copies.

相比之下，比爾·克林頓的《我的人生》在上市首日賣(mài)出約40萬(wàn)冊(cè)，喬治·W·布什的《抉擇時(shí)刻》首日賣(mài)出約22萬(wàn)冊(cè)，目前這兩本回憶錄的銷(xiāo)量均在350萬(wàn)冊(cè)到400萬(wàn)冊(cè)之間。

For the United States and Canada, Crown printed 3.4 million copies of the hardcover edition.

皇冠出版社印刷了340萬(wàn)本精裝版《應(yīng)許之地》在美國(guó)和加拿大發(fā)售。

Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt told Publishers Weekly earlier in the year, "This will be a book of rare consequence. That it will sell as no other book has done since July 21, 2007" — when "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" came out — "is immensely cheering to booksellers."

今年早些時(shí)候，巴諾公司首席執(zhí)行官詹姆斯·道特對(duì)《出版商周刊》說(shuō)：“這將是一本影響深遠(yuǎn)的書(shū)。自2007年7月21日《哈利·波特與死亡圣器》問(wèn)世以來(lái)，這本書(shū)的銷(xiāo)量是前所未有的，這對(duì)書(shū)商來(lái)說(shuō)是極大的鼓舞?！?/p>

Booksellers expect that the memoir will remain a top seller throughout the holiday season.

書(shū)商們預(yù)計(jì)，這本回憶錄在整個(gè)節(jié)日期間都將排在暢銷(xiāo)榜榜首。

Obama shared an eponymous playlist as a sort of companion to the book, which includes "some memorable songs from my administration," he tweeted.

配合新書(shū)發(fā)售，奧巴馬還分享了一個(gè)同名的音樂(lè)播放列表，其中包括“一些我在任時(shí)難忘的歌曲”，他在推特上寫(xiě)道。

eponymous [??p?n?m?s]：adj.與作品同名的；以……的名字命名的

英文來(lái)源：CNN、洛杉磯時(shí)報(bào)

翻譯&編輯：yaning