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⑴ 急急！！請高手幫忙翻譯一下

Adding
to
the
ridership
doubts
is
the
fact
thatCalifornia』s
cities,
likeFlorida』s,
are
sprawling.
添加到乘客懷疑是事實，加利福尼亞州的城市，如佛羅里達州的，是廣闊的。
Without
a
car,
it』s
not
easy
to
get
from
one
place
to
the
next.
沒有車，這是不容易從一個地方到下一個。
The
Reason
Foundation
report
notesThat
『the
San
Francisco
urban
(urbanized)
area』s
transit
market
share
is
3.8%,
Los
Angeles
is
1.6%,San
Diego
1.2%,San
Jose
0.8%
and
Sacramento
0.7%,』
which
means
that
「the
overwhelming
majority
of
HSR
trips
are
likely
to
require
a
car
at
one
or
both
ends
to
complete
the
trip
in
a
reasonable
time
and
with
reasonable
comfort..」
原因基金會的報告指出的是'的聖舊金山市區(城市化)區的中轉市場份額為3.8%
，洛杉磯是1.6
%
，聖迭戈1.2
%
，聖何塞0.8%和薩克拉門托0.7
%
，
「即說:」絕大多數的高鐵車次是可能要求在一個汽車或兩端完成在合理時間和合理的舒適之旅......
「
1.The
rail
plan
offered
an
「uninformative
timeline」
and
presented
an
「inconsistent
order
of
events.」
鐵路計劃提供了一個「無意義的時間表」
，並提出了一個「不一致的事件順序。
」
2.The
rail
plan
contained
「no
risk
management
strategy.」For
instance,
it
addressed
「the
risk
of
incorrectly
forecasted
ridership
with
one
sentence,」
murkily
noting
that
「the
risk
「would
be
mitigated
by
policies
that
continue
to
draw
people
to
reside
inCalifornia
and
encourage
high-speed
rail
as
an
alternative
mode
of
transportation
.』」
鐵路計劃中包含的「無風險管理策略」，例如，它解決了「不正確地預測了一句乘客的風險，
」穆爾基利指出，「風險」
，將繼續吸引人們居住的政策緩解在加利福尼亞州和鼓勵作為替代的運輸模式的高速鐵路。
3.The
rail
plan
did
not
「provide
any
numerical
ranges
nor
confidence
intervals
for
projections
contained
in
the
plan
(such
as
cost,
revenues,
or
ridership).」Thus
,
「the
risk
of
not
realizing
the
forecasted
ridership,
revenues
,or
costs
is
unknown
鐵路計劃沒有提供任何數值范圍，也沒有計劃(如成本，收入，或乘車)中預測的置信區間。「因此，
」沒有實現預測的乘客量，收入或費用的風險未知

⑵ IEEE 投稿Latex設置

ieee的期刊提交分為兩個版本的論文

1. 一個版本是手稿模式，要求頁面四周留出一英寸的空白，正文字型大小大於等於11號，雙倍行距

2. 另一個版本是雙欄模式，就是正式出版時候的樣子。這個版本沒什麼用的，主要是告訴自己論文有多長，發表的時候要交多少錢而已

註：既然你問這個問題，是不是從ieee網站上下載了latex壓縮包。如果是的話，裡面不是有IEEEtranHOWTO.pdf嗎，直接看就行了唄。其實那個pdf裡面一大堆IEEE自己定義的東西基本上用不到的。只要你會基本的latex排版規則，再加上會一點公式輸入規則，熟悉amsmath宏包中多行公式的排版等等，會插入圖片，把自己的非ieee模板論文弄好，然後把.tex文件的
documentclass{article}
換成
documentclass[journal,oneside]{IEEEtran}
之類的就OK了。

⑶ 學習LINUX shell 腳本編程的書籍

<<Linux Shell編程>><<Linux系統管理/red hat9從入門到精通>><<24小時精通UNIX shell編程《精通UNIX Shell 腳本編程》 這些都可以買到..到當地書店查詢下吧

⑷ vb.net 導出PDF

這是MSDN給出的一些答案：
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/e79afbe3-70d8-4d4e-b651-a864b7e5e7d9/read-parse-a-pdf-file-using-vbnet
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/4ca6b6fc-b483-44b3-bce0-eeb2f159c879/how-to-read-a-pdf-text-in-vbnet
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/83dd4a50-ee2a-4a57-a71b-7d2f5e06d024/how-to-read-pdf-file-line-by-line-like-text-file

⑸ 幫忙翻譯一下，給排水專業英語。

這是基於normanjl君的翻譯做出的，特致感謝！
Water & Waste Savings
水與廢水的節省
The Defender? filter virtually eliminates the tremendous amount of the backwash water associated with sand filter operation. Instead of reverse flushing, as with a sand filter, Defender? simply discharges the spent media directly to waste and is recharged from time to time.
答辯者的過濾器不像砂濾器那樣在操作中要用到大量的回洗水(，它幾乎不用多少水）。不像砂濾器那樣反沖洗，答辯者的過濾器只是簡單地往廢物中釋放某種特定的介質，並且該介質可以隨時補充。

The following chart illustrates the Backwash Water Consumption of a typical indoor waterpark attraction with a 2000 GPM (454 m3/ hr) recirculation rate.
下圖給出一個典型的室內水上游樂園以2000加侖/分鍾（454立方/小時）的循環速度所需要的回洗水消耗量。

The annual water savings in excess of 2.2 million gallons (8328 m3) is complemented by associated costs related to sewer expenses, chemicals, heating, power and labor.
年節約用水量超過220萬加侖（8382立方），加上與下水道開支、化學劑、加熱，動力和人工等有關的各項費用節省。

Backwash Water Consumption
回洗水消耗量
Energy & Chemicals Savings
能源與化學劑的節省

The dramatic rection of backwash waste directly translates to savings in make-up water along with the chemicals and fuel for re-heating. Consider the cost of chemically treating 2.2 million gallons (8328 m3) and the BTU's required to heat this volume from 50 degrees (10 °C) to 80 degrees Fahrenheit (27 °C).
回洗水的大量節省直接變成了補給水與化學劑以及再加熱所需燃料的節省。不妨考慮一下，化學處理220萬加侖（8382立方）廢水和將這些廢水從50華氏度（10攝氏度）加熱到80華氏度（27攝氏度）所需的英熱單位（BTU），得需要多少費用。

It is also important to note that the improved water quality generated by Defender's ability to remove finer particles will also save on general chemical consumption.
值得指出的還有採用答辯者的有精細顆粒濾除能力的過濾器帶來了水質量的提高，也可以節約常用化學劑的消耗量。

Estimated annual savings ranges from $42,000 to $52,000 depending on local fuel costs for oil, gas or electricity. Based on the Backwash Water Consumption of a typical waterpark attraction with a 2000 GPM (454m3 /hr) recirculation rate.
估計年節約費用在42,000美元到52,000美元之間，這取決於當地油、氣或電力的價格。這個估計是基於一個典型的室內水上游樂園以2000加侖/分鍾（454立方/小時）的循環速度所需要的回洗水消耗量來做出的。

Construction Savings
基本建設節省
More savings are derived from the smaller construction footprint for Defender? filter.
答辯者的過濾器佔地更少可帶來更多的費用節省。

This results in as little as one-fourth to one-sixth of the space required by an equivalently sized sand system, saving installation and rigging time. The lesser operating weight of the Defender? filter reces the extent to which the floor slab must be engineered. With building costs at an estimated $75 to $150 per square foot, selecting Defender? could generate construction savings in the tens of thousands of dollars.
該過濾系統佔地僅為同等大小砂濾器的四分之一到六分之一，節約了安裝和裝配時間。答辯者的過濾器以較輕的操作重量可在一定程度上減少底座板的施工作業。按每平方英尺75到150美元的土建成本估算，選用答辯者的過濾器可以獲得數萬美元的建設成本節省。

Additional Construction Benefits:
附加建造收益：
No backwash holding tank
不需要回洗水池。
Small waste line to sewer
去下水的廢水管線更短
Local backwash to waste flow rate restrictions are no longer an issue
局部回洗的廢水流量限制不再成為問題。

Operating weight may be as little as 10% of a similar sized sand filter
操作重量僅為同等尺寸砂濾器的10%。

⑹ 《》pdf下載在線閱讀，求百度網盤雲資源

《Lecture Notes in Algebraic Topology》（Paul Kirk James F. Davis）電子書網盤下載免費在線閱讀

資源鏈接：

鏈接：https://pan..com/s/1g7CENCbrb1TGtkcDfO7EDg

書名：Lecture Notes in Algebraic Topology

作者：Paul Kirk James F. Davis

出版社：American Mathematical Society

出版年份：2001-8-1

頁數：367

內容簡介：

The amount of algebraic topology a graate student specializing in topology must learn can be intimidating. Moreover, by their second year of graate studies, students must make the transition from understanding simple proofs line-by-line to understanding the overall structure of proofs of difficult theorems.

To help students make this transition, the material in this book is presented in an increasingly sophisticated manner. It is intended to bridge the gap between algebraic and geometric topology, both by providing the algebraic tools that a geometric topologist needs and by concentrating on those areas of algebraic topology that are geometrically motivated.

Prerequisites for using this book include basic set-theoretic topology, the definition of CW-complexes, some knowledge of the fundamental group/covering space theory, and the construction of singular homology. Most of this material is briefly reviewed at the beginning of the book.

The topics discussed by the authors include typical material for first- and second-year graate courses. The core of the exposition consists of chapters on homotopy groups and on spectral sequences. There is also material that would interest students of geometric topology (homology with local coefficients and obstruction theory) and algebraic topology (spectra and generalized homology), as well as preparation for more advanced topics such as algebraic K-theory and the s-cobordism theorem.

A unique feature of the book is the inclusion, at the end of each chapter, of several projects that require students to present proofs of substantial theorems and to write notes accompanying their explanations. Working on these projects allows students to grapple with the 「big picture」, teaches them how to give mathematical lectures, and prepares them for participating in research seminars.

The book is designed as a textbook for graate students studying algebraic and geometric topology and homotopy theory. It will also be useful for students from other fields such as differential geometry, algebraic geometry, and homological algebra. The exposition in the text is clear; special cases are presented over complex general statements.

⑺ 做外貿 給客戶寫開發信 客戶回復的幾率會有多大

一直以來開發信都被稱為外貿的敲門磚，不管是擴展外貿業務量，還是開發培養新客戶，開發信都是十分重要的。

有的人靠開發信，半年時間開發了十幾個客戶（樣品+大貨），全是行業TOP 5。有的人每天發幾百封開發信，都宛若石沉大海，連個水花都沒有。

針對如何提高外貿開發信回復率這個問題，很多外貿新人常關心怎麼寫開發信，卻忽視了怎麼發開發信。其實發和寫一樣重要，都直接影響著回復率。

很多新人找到聯系方式後就開始廣泛發郵件，結果沒等到客戶回復，郵箱都給封了，太悲催了。例如下面的這位朋友求助的就是這種情況。
大家都是怎麼發開發信的啊？郵箱又都被封了 ，要麼就是到達上限啦，真是悲催啊，煩躁啊，有沒有啥方法郵箱不會被封啊，手機號都用了好幾個了，申請不了新的啦。
任何的工作都是有技巧的，發郵件這項工作也不例外，希望以下的分享對大家會有所幫助：

01
開發信要注重客戶的質量

發開發信不在乎數量，要注重客戶的質量，找對客戶很重要。

找到聯系方式就發郵件的撒網式方法，效果並不好，就算有客戶回復，客戶的質量也不高。

可以用海關數據去分析近兩年采購產品的買家的采購行為：

1. 篩選一些和自己供應能力、供貨周期、供應價格相匹配的買家；

2. 如果符合上一條的特點，進入他們網站，看他們的公司簡介，深入得了解他們；

3. 繼續對這個買家進行深入挖掘：獲取海關數據中的聯系方式、聯系人姓名、買家企業名稱，利用Facebook、領英、谷歌搜索企業名、聯系人姓名進行搜索查詢更多的聯系方式，將聯系方式匯總，有針對性為這個買家寫開發信、發郵件。

4. 看他們對產品的描述、用詞、需求等，有針對性的寫開發信。知己知彼，才能制定策略，引起他們的興趣。

註：有不少網站開放了一些免費的海關數據大家可以利用它們收集一些目標采購商信息。例如：https://www.tradesns.com/cn/data/buyer.html

02
最好用付費的企業郵箱發開發信

比如你們公司是www.abc.com，你用[email protected]的郵箱發信這是最好的，一方面是比較正規。另一方面是因為gmail,hotmail,yahoo,foxmail,outlook,163等免費郵箱發郵件的成功率沒付費郵箱高，而且回復率成單率更加沒有付費郵箱高。

03
使用郵箱的分別發送功能

如果同時給很多人發開發信的話，務必要用郵箱的分別發送功能。

這樣客戶打開郵件，就不會看到其他人的郵件地址，否則會覺得你很沒誠意。試想：我們打開郵件看到那一堆的郵件地址，會作何感想呢。要想客戶回復你，首先你得尊重客戶。

04
標題可以包含客戶網站的標語、產品關鍵詞

1. 標題要簡短，絕對不能帶廣告詞、屏蔽關鍵詞。最好不用打開郵件詳情就能看完郵件標題，千萬不要寫MOQ, deal, affordable , goods, commodities, merchandiser, sell, sale, promote, offer, price, quotation, discount, trade, wholesale, cheap, low price, free shipping, free sample等詞，不然直接被退信，進入黑名單。

2. 加上客戶網站的標語，他們可能會情不自禁的點進來。大家都會對自己企業的口號標語比較熟悉，懷著好奇心點進來的。加上客戶網站的關鍵詞，他們看到標題就知道你是做什麼的，會覺得你的產品和他們的需求比較對口，更有興趣點進來閱讀郵件。

05
控制每日開發信的數量

每天開發信的數量控制在20-50封，有針對性的發。
比如：用他們網站上的產品關鍵詞寫郵件，一定更能激發他們的興趣。

當你的郵箱地址發郵件退信過多，直接被刪除過多時，你就直接進入你購買的郵箱公司的黑名單，他們可以關閉你賬號。所以要切記每天退信不要過多，當你看到很多退信時，當日就不要再發了。不然很容易被封號，還得打客服電話解封，再簽個聲明保證不再發垃圾郵件。

06
開發信的發送時間有講究

開發信的發送時間也有講究，最好在客戶上班前5分鍾內。

一般國外客戶一上班都會先處理郵件，前面的幾封郵件即便不是他非常關注的，他也會有心情點開看下去；而堆積在後面的郵件除非你寫得比較好，否則打開的幾率就很少了。可以在空閑的時候將郵件寫好，用郵箱的定時發送功能。

一周之中發開發信最好的時間為周二到周五，因為周一客戶大多數會很忙，沒有時間看陌生人的郵件，周末客戶要休息。

附上世界各國客戶上班時間表（對應的中國時間）：
阿根廷上班時間為（21.00- 05.30）
澳大利亞上班時間為（09.00-17.30）
奧地利上班時間為（15.00-23.00）
孟加拉上班時間為（11.00-19.30）
比利時上班時間為（15.00-23.30）
巴西上班時間為（19.00-3.30）
加拿大上班時間為（19.30-04.00）
智利上班時間為（21.00-05.30）
丹麥上班時間為（15.00-23.30）
埃及-利比亞-約旦-巴勒斯坦-卡達-沙烏地阿拉伯上班時間為（15.00-23.30）
法國-德國 -義大利-西班牙-荷蘭-葡萄牙上班時間為（15.00-23.30）
冰島上班時間為（17.00-01.30）
印度-巴基斯坦上班時間為（11.30-20.00）
伊朗上班時間為（12.30-21.00）
愛爾蘭上班時間為 （16.00-00.30）
以色列上班時間為（14.00-22.00）
墨西哥上班時間為（23.00-07.30）
巴拉圭-秘魯上班時間為（21.30-06.00）
羅馬尼亞上班時間為（14.00-22.30）
土耳其上班時間為（14.00-22.30）
阿聯酋上班時間為（13.00-21.30）
英國上班時間為（17.00-01.30）

07
第一封開發信絕對不能添加附件

第一封開發信絕對不能添加附件，包括郵件正文也不能插入圖片。

第一封開發信是否發送成功，決定了你之後的郵件能否送達至客戶郵箱，所以不要輕易涉險。不然後果很嚴重，如果客戶都把你拉黑名單了，你得換郵箱才能繼續發開發信。

對客戶來說，你是陌生人，你的郵件是待識別的陌生郵件，只有客戶將你的郵箱設為白名單，或者回復過後，你才能用附件。

注意：整封郵件大小不能超過1M，更不能超過2M。很可能直接被退信拉入黑名單垃圾郵件的。最好是幾百K，100K-200K最佳。

08
正文中不能出現鏈接

不能直接在正文寫自己的官網鏈接，或其他平台鏈接。因為這些鏈接不是安全鏈接。

這是由於郵件系統有個反垃圾反病毒木馬程序，目前只對谷歌，Facebook等國外網站鏈接檢測是安全無毒的。切記！切記！

所以可以把網址寫在郵件簽名裡面，Best regards。xx的後面，這樣絕對不會被退信。

09
第二封開發信要這樣貼附件

當成功發送了第一封開發信給客戶後，准備在第二封郵件貼附件時，請注意這幾點：

1. 一般來說,附件裡面，PDF是最高安全級別，然後是word、excel，然後是JPG（圖片千萬不要發PNG、BMP、GIF格式，不然退信概率很大）。但凡是exe作為附件的，99%是垃圾郵件，還有.rar和.zip.stl.stp的也是90%被判斷為垃圾郵件。

2. 如果要發大文件，可以先把文件傳到wetransfer, sendspace, dropbox等國外雲盤裡面，然後把雲盤文件的鏈接復制粘貼到郵件發給客戶下載。

3. 圖片不能過大，20K一張為准。可以把細節圖直接拼接為一張，而不是一張一張的發。

4. 圖片名不能寫產品名。最好寫成1.jpg、2.jpg。可以在郵件正文裡面寫出給客戶推薦的產品名稱、產品標題，對應圖片名。千萬不能以產品標題作為圖片名，不然很可能會被系統檢測為廣告垃圾郵件，直接退信。

做完了上述的准備工作後，還有一招可以試試：寫完開發信後，你用自己的工作郵箱，給自己的私人郵箱發一次試試，看是否會被列為垃圾郵件。比如你用的是企業郵箱，而客戶是Gmail，那你就先發給自己的私人Gmail郵箱試試。如果被退信或者開發信進了垃圾箱，那就趕緊修改，別猶豫。

當你還在發愁開發信為什麼沒人回復的時候，不妨回憶一下，自己在「發」開發信的時候有沒有注意以上這些問題！

⑻ IEEE，EI，SCI 投稿過程中都有哪些狀態時間大概多久

沒有投過IEEE和EI，只說說投稿SCI期刊的經驗。不同的期刊投稿方式、過程、狀態大致相同，但審稿時間差距非常大，幾天到一年、甚至幾年的都有。對於大部分期刊，從投稿到接收（或拒稿）大概在1到6個月可以完成。

現在大部分SCI期刊都是同行評議(peer-review)型。投稿給編輯部後，編輯轉發給相關領域的幾個審稿人（通常是2-4個），審稿人審稿後給出意見發回給編輯，編輯綜合各審稿人的意見和自己的意見，作出決定。不同期刊有不同的論文類型，大致包括full article、communication、review，以及牛人受邀寫的文章等，通常communication較full article容易發些，而且審稿周期也短些。

投稿的大致流程是這樣的（不同期刊、不同出版商略有不同）：

按照要求把論文正文、cover letter和相關信息都放到期刊網站的一個投稿系統上。完成後，投稿狀態顯示「Submitted to Editorial Office」或類似字樣。
投稿後，期刊編輯部會給通訊作者發email，通知簽署版權協議，投稿狀態可能會改為"Forms Awaiting Completion"或"Submissions Waiting for Author's Approval"，也可能不改，取決於不同期刊。完成後，狀態改回「Submitted to Editorial Office」或改為"Submissions Being Processed"。這個過程也就一兩天就會完成。
然後技術編輯會審閱論文格式，如果格式不對，打回修改。這個過程也不會很長，一周之內肯定能完成。
通過技術編輯後，管學術的編輯先大概看一下，如果文章不符合期刊主題，或者文章實在太爛，會直接拒稿，但拒稿信措辭通常很婉轉，類似於「不是你不好，只是我們不合適」、「你是個好人，肯定可以找到別人的」之類的。拒稿後狀態會改成"Submissions with a Decision"或者"Manuscripts No Longer Under Consideration"。這個過程大概一周之內也能完成，所以你的文章如果投稿一周多後還沒有消息，應該就是通過編輯這一關，送審了。我最快的一次，簽署版權協議後不到24小時就被編輯拒稿，悲催啊。
如果編輯覺得還可以，就會選擇幾個這個領域的同行（可能是你在投稿信息里推薦的，也可能不是，一般都是匿名評審，你不會知道審稿人是誰），發給他們審稿。審稿人完成審稿後會把意見發回給編輯。這個時候狀態會維持"Submitted to Editorial Office"或"Submissions Being Processed"不變。這個過程短則幾天，長則一年多，都有可能。不同期刊快慢不同。我之前的組里投稿，有的稿子兩周就能完成初審這一步，有一篇這一步耗時13個月。網友在小木蟲和http://medsci.cn上對每個期刊的審稿時間都有介紹，有時不是很准，但可以作為參考。
編輯收到幾個審稿人意見後，會綜合考慮，決定文章是直接通過，還是大修(major revision)，還是小修(minor revision)，還是拒稿。如果需要修改，會在給通訊作者的email里寫清楚deadline，如果不需要重新做大量試驗的話，會給60天左右的修改時間。這個時候投稿狀態會變成"Incomplete Revisions and Resubmissions"。修改完成提交到投稿系統，狀態變成"Revisions Waiting for Author's Approval"或者"Revisions and Resubmissions Received by Editorial Office"。
編輯收到修改稿，可以決定去留或者繼續修改。如果編輯覺得不好決定，就會再次發給審稿人，這次的審稿人可能和之前的相同，也可能不同。這一步的時間一兩天到幾個月都有可能。投稿系統會重復顯示之前的投稿狀態。
如果萬事大吉，通訊作者會收到接收信，投稿系統狀態會改成"Accepted Manuscripts"或者"Submissions with a Decision"。
後面可能要簽署一些協議，狀態改成"Proof Ready for Review"，"Proof Comments Received"。一兩天就搞定。
簽完協議後，工作人員會進行校對和排版，需要幾天到幾周時間。根據投稿時的選擇，文章可能在未校對、排版前就可被訂閱者看到（這時讀者下載的論文pdf排版很難看），或者只在之後才能看到。
校對排版後，出版社網站上可看到正式格式的全文。盡管這時讀者下載的pdf文件排版已經正式了，但還沒有正式刊號和頁碼。
幾周後，正式出版。這時網頁上和讀者下載的pdf文件中，已經帶有正式刊號和頁碼了。

可能現在還有很多期刊需要以email或者信件往來的方式投稿，不過我投過幾個期刊，是幾個主要出版商(American Chemical Society, ScienceDirect, Wiley, Royal Society of Chemistry, Springer)旗下的期刊，都是如上所述，在一個系統上完成投稿/修改過程。

⑼ 《TheNotebook》pdf下載在線閱讀，求百度網盤雲資源

《The Notebook》（[美國] Nicholas Sparks）電子書網盤下載免費在線閱讀

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鏈接：https://pan..com/s/18XUNMKyupHTDtYT3uvDdqg

書名：The Notebook

作者：[美國] Nicholas Sparks

豆瓣評分：8.0

出版社：Warner Vision

出版年份：2004-2-1

頁數：239

內容簡介：

A man with a faded, well-worn notebook open in his lap. A woman experiencing a morning ritual she doesn't understand. Until he begins to read to her. The Notebook is an achingly tender story about the enring power of love, a story of miracles that will stay with you forever. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned home from World War II. Noah, thirty-one, is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories....until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again. Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, is now engaged to another man, but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. Still, the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship remain, and the gulf between their worlds is too vast to ignore. With her impending marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future, a future that only she can shape. Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself, the tender moments and the fundamental changes that affect us all. Shining with a beauty that is rarely found in current literature, The Notebook establishes Nicholas Sparks as a classic storyteller with a unique insight into the only emotion that really matters. "I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough." And so begins one of the most poignant and compelling love stories you will ever read....The Notebook

"Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, "there were people making love." The Notebook, a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay with Mr. Respectability (to whom she happens to be engaged), or will she choose Noah, the romantic rascal she left so many years ago?

In 1932, two North Carolina teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love. Spending one idyllic summer together in the small town of New Bern, Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson do not meet again for 14 years. Noah has returned from WWII to restore the house of his dreams, having inherited a large sum of money. Allie, programmed by family and the "caste system of the South" to marry an ambitious, prosperous man, has become engaged to powerful attorney Lon Hammond. When she reads a newspaper story about Noah's restoration project, she shows up on his porch step, re-entering his life for two days. Will Allie leave Lon for Noah? The book's slim dimensions and cliche-ridden prose will make comparisons to The Bridges of Madison County inevitable. What renders Sparks's (Wokini: A Lakota Journey of Happiness and Self-Understanding) sentimental story somewhat distinctive are two chapters, which take place in a nursing home in the '90s, that frame the central story. The first sets the stage for the reading of the eponymous notebook, while the later one takes the characters into the land beyond happily ever after, a future rarely examined in books of this nature. Early on, Noah claims that theirs may be either a tragedy or a love story, depending on the perspective. Ultimately, the judgment is up to readers?be they cynics or romantics. For the latter, this will be a weeper. Major ad/promo; first serial to Good Housekeeping; movie rights to New Line Cinema; Warner Audio; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections.

Here is a first novel that many people are banking on: the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club are featuring it as a main selection and film, foreign, and serial rights are already sold. At 80, Noah Calhoun reads daily from a notebook containing the love story of Noah and Allie. We learn of the teenaged lovers, their 14-year separation and reunion in New Bern, North Carolina, just weeks before Allie is to marry another man. Back in the present, we learn that Noah and Allie did marry and were happy for more than 40 years. Now, they are residents of a nursing home, separated both by rooms and, more profoundly, by Allie's Alzheimer's. Noah's daily reading from the notebook is not to himself; he reads aloud to Allie, hoping that the power of their love story will reach her. Noah's coping mechanisms as an old man are exceptional, and the novel's format, focusing just on the al beginnings of their love story and its denouement, is intriguing. This is a more romantic testament to love's enring miracle than Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County (LJ 3/1/92) because the Calhouns chose the rigors of daily domestic life over a dream of four days. For all popular collections.

-?Rebecca S. Kelm, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland Heights

With a huge first printing and a major advertising campaign, Warner is clearly hoping that Sparks' first novel will plicate the success of Robert James Waller's Bridges of Madison County. Written in the opaque language of a fable, the novel opens in a nursing home as 80-year-old Noah Calhoun, "a common man with common thoughts," reads a love story from a notebook; it is his own story. In 1946, Noah, newly returned from the war, is trying to forget a long-ago summer romance with Allie Nelson, the daughter of a powerful businessman. Allie, soon to be married, feels compelled to track Noah down. One steamed-crab dinner and a canoe ride later, they fall madly in love again. We then learn that Noah, now aged and infirm, is reading his notebook to Allie in an attempt to jog her memory, severely impaired by Alzheimer's disease, and, miraculously, he succeeds, much to the amazement of the hospital staff. There is something suspect about a romantic relationship that reaches its acme when one of the partners is in the throes of dementia, but then, this is well within the confines of the romance genre--love conquers all, even Alzheimer's, leaving the medical experts (and this reviewer) confounded. If you want to read a novel in which the romance is grounded in something real, and the magic is truly magical, read the work of Alice Hoffman. If you want to read an upscale Harlequin romance with great crossover appeal, then read The Notebook.

Joanne Wilkinson

Two ordinary people are rendered extraordinary by the strength, power and beauty of true love; each brings out the best in the other, and their pure love enres. The al performance of Kate Nelligan and Campbell Scott enhances this smooth abridgment of Sparks's lyrical novel. With the perspectives of both characters presented, one has a sense of hearing the whole story. Nelligan's genteel, Southern tones blend perfectly with Scott's straightforward, gentle, often sensuous baritone. The readers deliver strong characterizations of both the younger, passionate lovers and the matured, easily fatigued, nursing home residents they become. Allie and Noah's heartrending story will touch the heart and soul of any listener who has ever loved a kindred spirit. J.H.B.An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner.

Sparks's debut is a contender in the Robert Waller book-sweeps for most shamelessly sentimental love story, with honorable mention for highest octane schmaltz throughout an extended narrative. New Bern is the Carolina town where local boy Noah Calhoun and visitor Allison Nelson fall in love, in 1932, when Noah is 17 and Allie 15 (``as he . . . met those striking emerald eyes, he knew . . . she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again''). Allie's socially prominent mom, however, sees their Romeo-and-Juliet affair differently, intercepting Noah's heartrendingly poetic love-letters, while Allie, sure he doesn't love her, never even sends hers. Love is forever, though, and in 1946 Allie sees a piece in the paper about Noah (he's back home after WW II, still alone, living in a 200-year-old house in the country) and drives down to see him, telling the socially prominent lawyer she's engaged to that she's gone looking for antiques (`` `And here it will end, one way or the other,' she whispered''). And together again the lovers come indeed, ring a thunderstorm, before a crackling fire, leaving the poetic Noah to reflect that ``to him, the evening would be remembered as one of the most special times he had ever had.'' So, will Allie marry her lawyer? Will Noah live out his life alone, rocking on his porch, paddling up the creek, ``playing his guitar for beavers and geese and wild blue herons''? Suffice it to say that love will go on, somehow, for 140 more pages, readers will find out what the title means and may or may not agree with Allie, of Noah: ``You are the most forgiving and peaceful man I know. God is with you, He must be, for you are the closest thing to an angel that I've ever met.'' An epic of treacle, an ocean of tears, made possible by a perfect, ideal, unalloyed absence of humor. Destined, positively, for success. (First serial to Good Housekeeping; film rights to New Line Cinema; Literary Guild selection)

length: (cm)17.1 width:(cm)11.3

作者簡介：

Nicholas Sparks is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers THE RESCUE and NIGHTS IN RODANTHE, as well as THE NOTEBOOK, MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, A WALK TO REMEMBER, A BEND IN THE ROAD, THE GUARDIAN, THE WEDDING, and his moving memoir, THREE WEEKS WITH MY BROTHER, written with his brother, Micah. All his books were New York Times and international bestsellers translated into more than thirty languages, and MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, A WALK TO REMEMBER, and THE NOTEBOOK were adapted into major motion pictures. Nicholas Sparks lives in North Carolina with his wife and family.

Nicholas Sparks 是當今美國文壇最擅長說故事的人之一，多部小說都已改編成電影，最為耳熟能詳的作品有《The Notebook 手札情緣》、《Message in a Bottle 瓶中信》等，他擅長描寫平凡人生中不平凡的愛情，其中《手札情緣》一上市更被視為「真愛不朽」的最佳見證。他的小說人物通常簡單，不過其中的感情卻都能讓讀者感同身受，因此一出版就會立刻登上暢銷書榜。最新力作《Dear John》空降New York Times文學類排行榜冠軍，擠下Mitch Albom《For One More Day》及Stephen King《Lisey's Story》，並同時榮登Publisher's Weekly、The Washington Post、Barnes & Noble、Amazon.com…各大排行榜首位。