热门学习辅助书――《傻瓜系列》丛书.docVIP

热门学习辅助书――《傻瓜系列》丛书翻译：毛毛 Do you know about a series of books that say they are “for dummies”? These American self-help books have been translated into more than 39 languages. They include Chinese, Arabic, Russian, French, German, Greek and Spanish. Barbara Klein has more. “Dummy”is a slang word for a stupid person. The Dummies books are not really for stupid people. They are designed to show people how to do something they may never have tried before. Things like painting a house or learning a language. The books all say in a funny way that they are for dummies. They include World History for Dummies, Rabbits For Dummies, Chinese Cooking For Dummies, and Wedding Planning For Dummies. The first such book was published in 1991. It was called DOS For Dummies. It helped people learn how to use the DOS operating system for computers. Since then, more than 150 million Dummies books have been sold.省略 website explains the idea behind the books. It says they demonstrate[证明] that people can be taught to do anything. It also describes how the books present their information. First they make fun of ideas that are difficult to understand. Then they show how the information can be interesting and easy. The publishers[出版商] say the books do not provide more information than necessary. They give readers just enough information to do what they want. They say the Dummies books give the best and easiest way to do something. And the books use simple language that is easy to understand. There are more than 1000 different Dummies books. A report in the New York Times newspaper says the top-selling Dummies books are those that explain technology and personal finance. Other top-selling books deal with health, like Diabetes[糖尿病] for Dummies. It was written by a doctor in San Francisco, California. There are even more Dummies books to come. The publishers say they release[发行] about 200 new Dummies books every year.省略阐述了丛书的宗旨。它指出，该丛书证明了人们可以学会做任何事情，同时也描述了该丛书是如何介绍其知识内容的。首先，丛书拿那些难以理解的概念