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As I visited libraries up and down the country, I was surprised to learn there are more than twice the number of libraries (2,892) as there are branches of McDonald’s.

在走访全国各地的图书馆时，我惊讶地得知，图书馆的数量（2892家）是麦当劳分店数量的两倍多。

If you’re heading for your nearest branch of Waterstones, the biggest book retailer in the UK, in search of the Duchess of Sussex’s new children’s book The Bench, you might have to be prepared to hunt around a bit; the same may be true of The President’s Daughter, the new thriller by Bill Clinton and James Patterson.

如果你正前往离你最近的水石书店（英国最大的图书零售商）分店，寻找苏塞克斯公爵夫人的新童书《长椅》，你可能得做好四处翻找一番的准备；比尔·克林顿和詹姆斯·帕特森合著的新惊悚小说《总统的女儿》或许也是如此。

The trade magazine The Bookseller reported that Waterstones branch managers were being told to remove PRH books from prominent areas such as tables, display spaces and windows, and were “quietly retiring them to their relevant sections”.

行业杂志《书商》报道称，水石书店的分店经理们被告知，要把企鹅兰登书屋的书从书桌、展示区和橱窗等显眼位置撤下，并“悄悄地将它们放回相应的分区”。

Waterstones branches suffer a severe reduction in revenue.

水石书店各分店收入严重减少。

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation’s foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century — the period when the United States emerged as an international power.

这座大楼最初被称为国务院、陆军部和海军部大楼，在19世纪最后25年和20世纪最初25年——美国崛起为国际强国的时期——容纳了与制定和执行国家外交政策关系最为密切的三个行政部门。