How much money did he pay you?
你花了多少钱?
I paid him. $3,000.
我付给他3000美元
- $3,000? - A small fortune.
- 3000? - 钱不多
But I had a little life insurance money because my husband...
但是我有点生活保险金,因为我丈夫…
- No! - He killed himself?
- 不! - 他自杀了?
Yes.
是的
And I thought, "Well, what else am I gonna do with the insurance money?"
于是我就想“我还能用这些保险金做些什么呢?”
And then, the book began to sell
而那时,书就开始销售了
and Bobbs-Merrill picked it up, so now I had a real publisher.
Bobbe-Merrill把它重新拾起来, 于是现在我有了一个真正意义上的出版商
And they gave you some money?
那他们付钱给你了吗?
Absolutely not.
当然没有了
They swindled me. They stole my copyright,
他们欺骗了我,偷走了我的版权
and now there’s a new edition, and guess what?
然后现在有了新的版本,猜猜看后来怎么了?
- What? - The index is a complete calamity.
- 怎么了? - 那索引糟糕透了
If you’re looking for City Chicken, you’re not gonna find it under "C."
如果你们想要找牛猪肉片交叠串烤肉(City Chicken), 你在“C”词条下是找不到的
Really?
真的吗?
It’s under "Drumsticks, Mock."
它被放在了“Drumsticks,Mock” (仿制鸡腿,属于D词条)里
No.
不
All she wanted to talk about
她想聊的就是
was how her publisher had cheated her
她的出版商是如何骗了她
out of thousands of dollars in royalties.
几千美元的版税