At any rate, according to the newspapers, there is a certain anxiety about fiction in Italy.

无论如何， 据报纸报道，意大利对小说存在一定的焦虑。

I'd read that Mario Puzo had just scored a huge advance for paperback rights to The Godfather—four hundred thousand dollars according to the newspaper—but I didn't believe Carrie would fetch anything near that, assuming it sold to paperback at all.

我曾经读到过报道，说马里奥·普佐卖《教父》的简装本版权得了一大笔预付金——据报纸上说是四十万美元——可我觉得《魔女嘉丽》的简装本版权即便是卖出去，价钱也远远到不了那么高。