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Unit One Harry Potter and the Sad Grown-ups 1. Walking through my train yesterday, staggering from my seat to the buffet and back, I counted five people reading Harry Potter novels. 昨天在地铁上，我摇晃着在座位和餐室之间走了个来回，看到有五个人在读《哈里·波特》小说。 2. It was as if I had wandered into a John Wyndham scenario where the adults brains have been addled by a plague and they have returned to childishness, avidly hunting out their toys and coloring-in books. 我仿佛是走在约翰·温德汉姆的小说中。那里的成人被瘟疫搞坏了大脑，他们回到了童年，热切地搜寻着玩具和彩色书本。 3. Maybe that would have been understandable. If these people had jumped whole-heartedly into a second childhood it would have made more sense. 这也许是可以理解的。如果这些人全身心地投入了第二次童年就更说得 过去了。 4. But they were card-carrying grown-ups with laptops and spreadsheets returning from sales meetings and seminars. Yet they chose to read a children’s book. 但他们是成年人，是揣着信用卡，拎着手提电脑，带着各种电子表格，刚刚出席完销售会议和研讨会的成年人。然而他们选择了阅读儿童书籍 5. I don’t imagine you’ll find this headcount exceptional. You can no longer get on the London Tube and not see a Harry Potter book, and I presume the same is true on the Glasgow Metro or the Manchester trams, or the beaches of Ibiza or clubs of Ayia Napa. 我不会想象你觉得我这次清点人数有什么异乎寻常。（如今）你登上伦敦地铁势必会看到《哈里·波特》一书，而且我想，不管是在格拉斯哥的地铁中还是在曼切斯特的电车上，或是在伊比沙（地中海西部岛屿）海滨，或在是阿伊亚纳帕（塞浦路斯度假胜地）夜总会，情形都是一样。 6. Who told these adults they should read a kids’ book? Do we see them ploughing through Tom’s Midnight Garden? Of course not; if you suggested it they would rightly stare, bemused, and say, “Isn’t that a kids’ book? Why would I want to read that? I’m 37/42/63”. 谁说这些成年人应该读儿童书籍的？他们会埋头苦读《汤姆的午夜花园》（英国作家菲利帕·皮尔斯的儿童小说）吗？当然不会；如果你建议他们去读，他们会理直气壮地瞪着你，困惑不解地说：“那不是小孩子看的吗? 我干嘛要读它？我已经37/42/63”。 7. Of course not; if you suggested it they would rightly stare, bemused, and say… 当然不会；如果你建议他们去读，他们会理直气壮地瞪着你，困惑不解地说…… 8. Nor is it just the film; these throw-back readers were out there in droves long before the movie campaign opened. Warner Brothers knows it can’t hope to recoup its reputed $100m costs through ticket sales to ch