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⑴ 急急！！请高手帮忙翻译一下

Adding
to
the
ridership
doubts
is
the
fact
thatCalifornia’s
cities,
likeFlorida’s,
are
sprawling.
添加到乘客怀疑是事实，加利福尼亚州的城市，如佛罗里达州的，是广阔的。
Without
a
car,
it’s
not
easy
to
get
from
one
place
to
the
next.
没有车，这是不容易从一个地方到下一个。
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..”
原因基金会的报告指出的是'的圣旧金山市区(城市化)区的中转市场份额为3.8%
，洛杉矶是1.6
%
，圣迭戈1.2
%
，圣何塞0.8%和萨克拉门托0.7
%
，
“即说:”绝大多数的高铁车次是可能要求在一个汽车或两端完成在合理时间和合理的舒适之旅......
“
1.The
rail
plan
offered
an
“uninformative
timeline”
and
presented
an
“inconsistent
order
of
events.”
铁路计划提供了一个“无意义的时间表”
，并提出了一个“不一致的事件顺序。
”
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
.’”
铁路计划中包含的“无风险管理策略”，例如，它解决了“不正确地预测了一句乘客的风险，
”穆尔基利指出，“风险”
，将继续吸引人们居住的政策缓解在加利福尼亚州和鼓励作为替代的运输模式的高速铁路。
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
铁路计划没有提供任何数值范围，也没有计划(如成本，收入，或乘车)中预测的置信区间。“因此，
”没有实现预测的乘客量，收入或费用的风险未知

⑵ IEEE 投稿Latex设置

ieee的期刊提交分为两个版本的论文

1. 一个版本是手稿模式，要求页面四周留出一英寸的空白，正文字号大于等于11号，双倍行距

2. 另一个版本是双栏模式，就是正式出版时候的样子。这个版本没什么用的，主要是告诉自己论文有多长，发表的时候要交多少钱而已

注：既然你问这个问题，是不是从ieee网站上下载了latex压缩包。如果是的话，里面不是有IEEEtranHOWTO.pdf吗，直接看就行了呗。其实那个pdf里面一大堆IEEE自己定义的东西基本上用不到的。只要你会基本的latex排版规则，再加上会一点公式输入规则，熟悉amsmath宏包中多行公式的排版等等，会插入图片，把自己的非ieee模板论文弄好，然后把.tex文件的
documentclass{article}
换成
documentclass[journal,oneside]{IEEEtran}
之类的就OK了。

⑶ 学习LINUX shell 脚本编程的书籍

<<Linux Shell编程>><<Linux系统管理/red hat9从入门到精通>><<24小时精通UNIX shell编程《精通UNIX Shell 脚本编程》 这些都可以买到..到当地书店查询下吧

⑷ vb.net 导出PDF

这是MSDN给出的一些答案：
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 帮忙翻译一下，给排水专业英语。

这是基于normanjl君的翻译做出的，特致感谢！
Water & Waste Savings
水与废水的节省
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.
答辩者的过滤器不像砂滤器那样在操作中要用到大量的回洗水(，它几乎不用多少水）。不像砂滤器那样反冲洗，答辩者的过滤器只是简单地往废物中释放某种特定的介质，并且该介质可以随时补充。

The following chart illustrates the Backwash Water Consumption of a typical indoor waterpark attraction with a 2000 GPM (454 m3/ hr) recirculation rate.
下图给出一个典型的室内水上游乐园以2000加仑/分钟（454立方/小时）的循环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.
年节约用水量超过220万加仑（8382立方），加上与下水道开支、化学剂、加热，动力和人工等有关的各项费用节省。

Backwash Water Consumption
回洗水消耗量
Energy & Chemicals Savings
能源与化学剂的节省

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).
回洗水的大量节省直接变成了补给水与化学剂以及再加热所需燃料的节省。不妨考虑一下，化学处理220万加仑（8382立方）废水和将这些废水从50华氏度（10摄氏度）加热到80华氏度（27摄氏度）所需的英热单位（BTU），得需要多少费用。

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.
值得指出的还有采用答辩者的有精细颗粒滤除能力的过滤器带来了水质量的提高，也可以节约常用化学剂的消耗量。

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.
估计年节约费用在42,000美元到52,000美元之间，这取决于当地油、气或电力的价格。这个估计是基于一个典型的室内水上游乐园以2000加仑/分钟（454立方/小时）的循环速度所需要的回洗水消耗量来做出的。

Construction Savings
基本建设节省
More savings are derived from the smaller construction footprint for Defender? filter.
答辩者的过滤器占地更少可带来更多的费用节省。

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.
该过滤系统占地仅为同等大小砂滤器的四分之一到六分之一，节约了安装和装配时间。答辩者的过滤器以较轻的操作重量可在一定程度上减少底座板的施工作业。按每平方英尺75到150美元的土建成本估算，选用答辩者的过滤器可以获得数万美元的建设成本节省。

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
去下水的废水管线更短
Local backwash to waste flow rate restrictions are no longer an issue
局部回洗的废水流量限制不再成为问题。

Operating weight may be as little as 10% of a similar sized sand filter
操作重量仅为同等尺寸砂滤器的10%。

⑹ 《》pdf下载在线阅读，求百度网盘云资源

《Lecture Notes in Algebraic Topology》（Paul Kirk James F. Davis）电子书网盘下载免费在线阅读

资源链接：

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

书名：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

页数：367

内容简介：

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 做外贸 给客户写开发信 客户回复的几率会有多大

一直以来开发信都被称为外贸的敲门砖，不管是扩展外贸业务量，还是开发培养新客户，开发信都是十分重要的。

有的人靠开发信，半年时间开发了十几个客户（样品+大货），全是行业TOP 5。有的人每天发几百封开发信，都宛若石沉大海，连个水花都没有。

针对如何提高外贸开发信回复率这个问题，很多外贸新人常关心怎么写开发信，却忽视了怎么发开发信。其实发和写一样重要，都直接影响着回复率。

很多新人找到联系方式后就开始广泛发邮件，结果没等到客户回复，邮箱都给封了，太悲催了。例如下面的这位朋友求助的就是这种情况。
大家都是怎么发开发信的啊？邮箱又都被封了 ，要么就是到达上限啦，真是悲催啊，烦躁啊，有没有啥方法邮箱不会被封啊，手机号都用了好几个了，申请不了新的啦。
任何的工作都是有技巧的，发邮件这项工作也不例外，希望以下的分享对大家会有所帮助：

01
开发信要注重客户的质量

发开发信不在乎数量，要注重客户的质量，找对客户很重要。

找到联系方式就发邮件的撒网式方法，效果并不好，就算有客户回复，客户的质量也不高。

可以用海关数据去分析近两年采购产品的买家的采购行为：

1. 筛选一些和自己供应能力、供货周期、供应价格相匹配的买家；

2. 如果符合上一条的特点，进入他们网站，看他们的公司简介，深入得了解他们；

3. 继续对这个买家进行深入挖掘：获取海关数据中的联系方式、联系人姓名、买家企业名称，利用Facebook、领英、谷歌搜索企业名、联系人姓名进行搜索查询更多的联系方式，将联系方式汇总，有针对性为这个买家写开发信、发邮件。

4. 看他们对产品的描述、用词、需求等，有针对性的写开发信。知己知彼，才能制定策略，引起他们的兴趣。

注：有不少网站开放了一些免费的海关数据大家可以利用它们收集一些目标采购商信息。例如：https://www.tradesns.com/cn/data/buyer.html

02
最好用付费的企业邮箱发开发信

比如你们公司是www.abc.com，你用[email protected]的邮箱发信这是最好的，一方面是比较正规。另一方面是因为gmail,hotmail,yahoo,foxmail,outlook,163等免费邮箱发邮件的成功率没付费邮箱高，而且回复率成单率更加没有付费邮箱高。

03
使用邮箱的分别发送功能

如果同时给很多人发开发信的话，务必要用邮箱的分别发送功能。

这样客户打开邮件，就不会看到其他人的邮件地址，否则会觉得你很没诚意。试想：我们打开邮件看到那一堆的邮件地址，会作何感想呢。要想客户回复你，首先你得尊重客户。

04
标题可以包含客户网站的标语、产品关键词

1. 标题要简短，绝对不能带广告词、屏蔽关键词。最好不用打开邮件详情就能看完邮件标题，千万不要写MOQ, deal, affordable , goods, commodities, merchandiser, sell, sale, promote, offer, price, quotation, discount, trade, wholesale, cheap, low price, free shipping, free sample等词，不然直接被退信，进入黑名单。

2. 加上客户网站的标语，他们可能会情不自禁的点进来。大家都会对自己企业的口号标语比较熟悉，怀着好奇心点进来的。加上客户网站的关键词，他们看到标题就知道你是做什么的，会觉得你的产品和他们的需求比较对口，更有兴趣点进来阅读邮件。

05
控制每日开发信的数量

每天开发信的数量控制在20-50封，有针对性的发。
比如：用他们网站上的产品关键词写邮件，一定更能激发他们的兴趣。

当你的邮箱地址发邮件退信过多，直接被删除过多时，你就直接进入你购买的邮箱公司的黑名单，他们可以关闭你账号。所以要切记每天退信不要过多，当你看到很多退信时，当日就不要再发了。不然很容易被封号，还得打客服电话解封，再签个声明保证不再发垃圾邮件。

06
开发信的发送时间有讲究

开发信的发送时间也有讲究，最好在客户上班前5分钟内。

一般国外客户一上班都会先处理邮件，前面的几封邮件即便不是他非常关注的，他也会有心情点开看下去；而堆积在后面的邮件除非你写得比较好，否则打开的几率就很少了。可以在空闲的时候将邮件写好，用邮箱的定时发送功能。

一周之中发开发信最好的时间为周二到周五，因为周一客户大多数会很忙，没有时间看陌生人的邮件，周末客户要休息。

附上世界各国客户上班时间表（对应的中国时间）：
阿根廷上班时间为（21.00- 05.30）
澳大利亚上班时间为（09.00-17.30）
奥地利上班时间为（15.00-23.00）
孟加拉上班时间为（11.00-19.30）
比利时上班时间为（15.00-23.30）
巴西上班时间为（19.00-3.30）
加拿大上班时间为（19.30-04.00）
智利上班时间为（21.00-05.30）
丹麦上班时间为（15.00-23.30）
埃及-利比亚-约旦-巴勒斯坦-卡塔尔-沙特阿拉伯上班时间为（15.00-23.30）
法国-德国 -意大利-西班牙-荷兰-葡萄牙上班时间为（15.00-23.30）
冰岛上班时间为（17.00-01.30）
印度-巴基斯坦上班时间为（11.30-20.00）
伊朗上班时间为（12.30-21.00）
爱尔兰上班时间为 （16.00-00.30）
以色列上班时间为（14.00-22.00）
墨西哥上班时间为（23.00-07.30）
巴拉圭-秘鲁上班时间为（21.30-06.00）
罗马尼亚上班时间为（14.00-22.30）
土耳其上班时间为（14.00-22.30）
阿联酋上班时间为（13.00-21.30）
英国上班时间为（17.00-01.30）

07
第一封开发信绝对不能添加附件

第一封开发信绝对不能添加附件，包括邮件正文也不能插入图片。

第一封开发信是否发送成功，决定了你之后的邮件能否送达至客户邮箱，所以不要轻易涉险。不然后果很严重，如果客户都把你拉黑名单了，你得换邮箱才能继续发开发信。

对客户来说，你是陌生人，你的邮件是待识别的陌生邮件，只有客户将你的邮箱设为白名单，或者回复过后，你才能用附件。

注意：整封邮件大小不能超过1M，更不能超过2M。很可能直接被退信拉入黑名单垃圾邮件的。最好是几百K，100K-200K最佳。

08
正文中不能出现链接

不能直接在正文写自己的官网链接，或其他平台链接。因为这些链接不是安全链接。

这是由于邮件系统有个反垃圾反病毒木马程序，目前只对谷歌，Facebook等国外网站链接检测是安全无毒的。切记！切记！

所以可以把网址写在邮件签名里面，Best regards。xx的后面，这样绝对不会被退信。

09
第二封开发信要这样贴附件

当成功发送了第一封开发信给客户后，准备在第二封邮件贴附件时，请注意这几点：

1. 一般来说,附件里面，PDF是最高安全级别，然后是word、excel，然后是JPG（图片千万不要发PNG、BMP、GIF格式，不然退信概率很大）。但凡是exe作为附件的，99%是垃圾邮件，还有.rar和.zip.stl.stp的也是90%被判断为垃圾邮件。

2. 如果要发大文件，可以先把文件传到wetransfer, sendspace, dropbox等国外云盘里面，然后把云盘文件的链接复制粘贴到邮件发给客户下载。

3. 图片不能过大，20K一张为准。可以把细节图直接拼接为一张，而不是一张一张的发。

4. 图片名不能写产品名。最好写成1.jpg、2.jpg。可以在邮件正文里面写出给客户推荐的产品名称、产品标题，对应图片名。千万不能以产品标题作为图片名，不然很可能会被系统检测为广告垃圾邮件，直接退信。

做完了上述的准备工作后，还有一招可以试试：写完开发信后，你用自己的工作邮箱，给自己的私人邮箱发一次试试，看是否会被列为垃圾邮件。比如你用的是企业邮箱，而客户是Gmail，那你就先发给自己的私人Gmail邮箱试试。如果被退信或者开发信进了垃圾箱，那就赶紧修改，别犹豫。

当你还在发愁开发信为什么没人回复的时候，不妨回忆一下，自己在“发”开发信的时候有没有注意以上这些问题！

⑻ IEEE，EI，SCI 投稿过程中都有哪些状态时间大概多久

没有投过IEEE和EI，只说说投稿SCI期刊的经验。不同的期刊投稿方式、过程、状态大致相同，但审稿时间差距非常大，几天到一年、甚至几年的都有。对于大部分期刊，从投稿到接收（或拒稿）大概在1到6个月可以完成。

现在大部分SCI期刊都是同行评议(peer-review)型。投稿给编辑部后，编辑转发给相关领域的几个审稿人（通常是2-4个），审稿人审稿后给出意见发回给编辑，编辑综合各审稿人的意见和自己的意见，作出决定。不同期刊有不同的论文类型，大致包括full article、communication、review，以及牛人受邀写的文章等，通常communication较full article容易发些，而且审稿周期也短些。

投稿的大致流程是这样的（不同期刊、不同出版商略有不同）：

按照要求把论文正文、cover letter和相关信息都放到期刊网站的一个投稿系统上。完成后，投稿状态显示“Submitted to Editorial Office”或类似字样。
投稿后，期刊编辑部会给通讯作者发email，通知签署版权协议，投稿状态可能会改为"Forms Awaiting Completion"或"Submissions Waiting for Author's Approval"，也可能不改，取决于不同期刊。完成后，状态改回“Submitted to Editorial Office”或改为"Submissions Being Processed"。这个过程也就一两天就会完成。
然后技术编辑会审阅论文格式，如果格式不对，打回修改。这个过程也不会很长，一周之内肯定能完成。
通过技术编辑后，管学术的编辑先大概看一下，如果文章不符合期刊主题，或者文章实在太烂，会直接拒稿，但拒稿信措辞通常很婉转，类似于“不是你不好，只是我们不合适”、“你是个好人，肯定可以找到别人的”之类的。拒稿后状态会改成"Submissions with a Decision"或者"Manuscripts No Longer Under Consideration"。这个过程大概一周之内也能完成，所以你的文章如果投稿一周多后还没有消息，应该就是通过编辑这一关，送审了。我最快的一次，签署版权协议后不到24小时就被编辑拒稿，悲催啊。
如果编辑觉得还可以，就会选择几个这个领域的同行（可能是你在投稿信息里推荐的，也可能不是，一般都是匿名评审，你不会知道审稿人是谁），发给他们审稿。审稿人完成审稿后会把意见发回给编辑。这个时候状态会维持"Submitted to Editorial Office"或"Submissions Being Processed"不变。这个过程短则几天，长则一年多，都有可能。不同期刊快慢不同。我之前的组里投稿，有的稿子两周就能完成初审这一步，有一篇这一步耗时13个月。网友在小木虫和http://medsci.cn上对每个期刊的审稿时间都有介绍，有时不是很准，但可以作为参考。
编辑收到几个审稿人意见后，会综合考虑，决定文章是直接通过，还是大修(major revision)，还是小修(minor revision)，还是拒稿。如果需要修改，会在给通讯作者的email里写清楚deadline，如果不需要重新做大量试验的话，会给60天左右的修改时间。这个时候投稿状态会变成"Incomplete Revisions and Resubmissions"。修改完成提交到投稿系统，状态变成"Revisions Waiting for Author's Approval"或者"Revisions and Resubmissions Received by Editorial Office"。
编辑收到修改稿，可以决定去留或者继续修改。如果编辑觉得不好决定，就会再次发给审稿人，这次的审稿人可能和之前的相同，也可能不同。这一步的时间一两天到几个月都有可能。投稿系统会重复显示之前的投稿状态。
如果万事大吉，通讯作者会收到接收信，投稿系统状态会改成"Accepted Manuscripts"或者"Submissions with a Decision"。
后面可能要签署一些协议，状态改成"Proof Ready for Review"，"Proof Comments Received"。一两天就搞定。
签完协议后，工作人员会进行校对和排版，需要几天到几周时间。根据投稿时的选择，文章可能在未校对、排版前就可被订阅者看到（这时读者下载的论文pdf排版很难看），或者只在之后才能看到。
校对排版后，出版社网站上可看到正式格式的全文。尽管这时读者下载的pdf文件排版已经正式了，但还没有正式刊号和页码。
几周后，正式出版。这时网页上和读者下载的pdf文件中，已经带有正式刊号和页码了。

可能现在还有很多期刊需要以email或者信件往来的方式投稿，不过我投过几个期刊，是几个主要出版商(American Chemical Society, ScienceDirect, Wiley, Royal Society of Chemistry, Springer)旗下的期刊，都是如上所述，在一个系统上完成投稿/修改过程。

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书名：The Notebook

作者：[美国] Nicholas Sparks

豆瓣评分：8.0

出版社：Warner Vision

出版年份：2004-2-1

页数：239

内容简介：

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)

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作者简介：

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 是当今美国文坛最擅长说故事的人之一，多部小说都已改编成电影，最为耳熟能详的作品有《The Notebook 手札情缘》、《Message in a Bottle 瓶中信》等，他擅长描写平凡人生中不平凡的爱情，其中《手札情缘》一上市更被视为“真爱不朽”的最佳见证。他的小说人物通常简单，不过其中的感情却都能让读者感同身受，因此一出版就会立刻登上畅销书榜。最新力作《Dear John》空降New York Times文学类排行榜冠军，挤下Mitch Albom《For One More Day》及Stephen King《Lisey's Story》，并同时荣登Publisher's Weekly、The Washington Post、Barnes & Noble、Amazon.com…各大排行榜首位。