每日新闻(45)【英国邓迪慈善商店惊现第一版《霍比特人》】

The First edition of The Hobbit found in a Dundee charity shop sells for £10,000

A first edition copy

of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit

has sold

for more than £10,000 after being discovered in a charity shop.

The rare copy

of Bilbo Baggins' Tale

was

stumbled

upon by the manager of the Cancer Research UK Superstore in Dundee.As the store only sells items for £5 or less,

the book was

put up for sale

on eBay

, where it made £10,099.50 for the charity.

The book is one of the first 1,500 copies

of the children's literature classic

, which

sold out

soon after publication in 1937 due to

rave

reviews.

These editions include black and white

illustrations

by Tolkien himself.

生词/组：

stumbled 说，读，演奏;绊脚

put up for sale 出售;拿出销售

rave <英口>极力夸奖，赞不绝口;<口>狂热褒评的，赞扬的

sold out 销售一空的;票已售完的

illustration n. 插图，图解

译文：

在邓迪慈善商店发现的《霍比特人》第一版售价1万英镑

JRR托尔金的《霍比特人》第一版在一家慈善商店被发现后，售价超过1万英镑。这本罕见的《比尔博·巴金斯的故事》被邓迪癌症研究英国超市的经理偶然发现。由于这家商店只卖5英镑或更低的东西，这本书在eBay上出售，为慈善机构赚了10099.50英镑。这本书是第一批1500本儿童文学经典之一，1937年出版后不久，由于好评如潮，该书就销售一空。这些版本包括托尔金本人绘制的黑白插图。 来自卫报（The Guardian）