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She presented me a best-seller as my birthday gift.
她送给我一本畅销书作为生日礼物。
There was this best-seller a few years ago [in 1984], it went through about ten printings, by a woman named Joan Peters—or at least, signed by Joan Peters—called From Time Immemorial.
在几年前[1984年]，它曾是本畅销书，曾被印刷了十多次，是一位名为琼·彼得斯的女子写的（应该是名女子，因为签名是琼·彼得斯），书名叫《远古以来》。书中脚注众多。
And zombies have clawed their way to the top of book best-seller lists in the last decade with literature ranging from how-to survival manuals to reinterpretations of early Victorian fiction.
在过去十年间，各种有关僵尸题材的书籍——从生存手册到早期维多利亚小说的重新解读——无不跻身于各畅销书排行榜之首。

became a national best-seller. One hundred fifty years after "On the Origin of Species" first appeared, it remains one of the most influential and debated books ever written.
There's almost always some weight loss book on the best-seller list, and the question is, which of these approaches to dieting works the best?
教人减肥的书总高悬在畅销书排行榜上,问题在于,哪种减肥方法是最有效的
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Unfortunately, weight loss diets don't work very well, and that's one of the reasons why there is always a diet book on the best-seller list.
很不幸,食品减肥的作用不明显,正因为如此,最畅销书榜才总有减肥食品的书上榜
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No wonder Play.com best-seller lists do not even register the new Nokia Symbian phones.
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