问答题
1. 电子书(e-book)通常指数字化的出版物，它可以包含文字、图片、声音、影像或几者兼有。现在人们经常使用
智能手机(smartphone)、
平板电脑(tablet)或者专门为电子书制造的电子阅读器来阅读电子书。电子书内容丰富，便于存储，而且价格低廉，有助于阅读的普及。从传统意义上讲，电子书是纸质书的电子化，但现在许多电子书并没有纸质的对应物。电子书以数字形式存储，因此人们随时都可以阅读。2012年，美国电子书的销量首次超过了
精装书(hardcover book)。
【正确答案】E-books generally refer to digitized publications1. They can include words, pictures, sounds, images, or a combination of two or more. Now people often read e-books with smartphones, tablets, or e-book readers that are specially made for2 e-books. E-books have colorful contents and are convenient to store. Their prices are cheap and they are conducive to the popularity of reading3. E-books are traditionally believed as an electronic version of the printed books4, but now many e-books exist without any printed equivalent5. E-books are stored digitally, so they can be read at any time. In 2012, e-book sales in the United States surpassed6 hardcover book sales for the first time.
【答案解析】 1.数字化的出版物：此处将“数字化”译作digitized，而不是digital，是要强调动作概念。
2.专门为……制造：翻译为specially made for...
3.阅读的普及：翻译为the popularity of reading。
4.电子书是纸质书的电子化：也就是说电子书是纸质书的电子版本，“版本”的英文表达是version，“纸质书”一般都是需要印刷的，所以译为printed books。
5.纸质的对应物：“对应物”可译为equivalent。
6.超过：可以用surpass表示，还可以用exceed表示。