美國(guó)出版社推出袖珍橫版口袋書

"Dwarsliggers" -- tiny, pocket-size, horizontalflip backs that have been popular in Europe -- have come to the US.

風(fēng)靡歐洲的口袋大小的袖珍橫版翻背書“dwarsliggers(翻背口袋書)”，已于日前登陸美國(guó)市場(chǎng)。

Dutton Books for Young Readers, which is part of Penguin Random House, began releasing the firstdwarsliggers in the US, with four novels by the best-selling young-adult novelist John Green, including"The Fault in Our Stars".

企鵝蘭登書屋旗下的杜頓青年讀者書籍出版社近日開始發(fā)布美國(guó)的首批翻背口袋書：暢銷青年小說作者約翰·格林的《星運(yùn)里的錯(cuò)》等4本小說。

The tiny editions are the size of a cell phone and no thicker than your thumb, with paper as thin as onion skin.

這種袖珍書手機(jī)般大小，厚度不及拇指，書頁薄如洋蔥皮。

They can be read with one hand -- the text flows horizontally, and you can flip the pages upward, like swiping a smartphone.

這些書可單手閱讀，文字橫向排列，可以像刷智能手機(jī)一樣向上翻頁。

The term dwarsligger comes from the Dutch words "dwars", or crossways, and "liggen", to lie, and also means a person or thing that stands out as different.

Dwarsligger這個(gè)詞源于荷蘭文中的dwars和liggen，dwars意為“交叉地”，liggen有“平躺”的意思，也表示“與眾不同的人或事物”。

In the last decade or so, the format, introduced in Holland in 2009, has spread across Europe, and nearly 10 million copies have been sold.

荷蘭于2009年推出了翻背口袋書，在過去10年左右，這種形式的書籍已經(jīng)遍及整個(gè)歐洲，售出近千萬本。