米歇尔·奥巴马曾经是美国最受欢迎的第一夫人，如今，她成了美国畅销书的作者。
她的回忆录《成为》上市才15天，就跃居2018畅销书排行榜榜首。
这本回忆录的出版商企鹅兰登书屋宣布，回忆录《成为》在11月13日上市后，15天内就在美国和加拿大地区售出了超过200万本。
这一销售数据包括电子书、有声书等各种版本的销售量。
兰登书屋称，这意味着，在2018年美国和加拿大出版的所有书籍中，这本书的销售量排名第一。
《成为》在其他国家也很受欢迎，而且正被翻译成31种语言出版。
在纽约，人们为了获得米歇尔的签名书在严寒中等待超过16个小时。
结束十年聚光灯下的生活之后，这本书让人们可以前所未有地了解米歇尔的生活。
书中米歇尔谈到了她的婚姻、种族、事业、家庭和各种与之相关的挣扎。
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 米歇尔·奥巴马 | Mǐ xiē ěr Ào bā mǎ | Michelle Obama, former First Lady of the United States and author. |
| 曾经 | céng jīng | once / already / former / previously / ever / (past tense marker used before verb or clause) |
| 是 | shì | to be (followed by substantives only) |
| 美国 | Měi guó | United States; USA; US |
| 最 | zuì | (before an adjective or verb) to the highest degree; (the) most ...; -est |
| 受 | shòu | subjected to / (passive marker) |
| 欢迎 | huān yíng | welcome |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 第 | dì | (prefix indicating ordinal number) |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 夫人 | fū rén | lady / madam / Mrs. |
| 如今 | rú jīn | nowadays; now |
| 她 | tā | she |
| 成 | chéng | to succeed / to finish / to complete / to accomplish / to become / to turn into / to be all right |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 畅销书 | chàng xiāo shū | best-seller / best-selling book / blockbuster |
| 作者 | zuò zhě | author; writer |
| 回忆录 | huí yì lù | memoir |
| 《成为》 | chéng wéi | to become; to turn into |
| 上市 | shàng shì | to hit the market (of a new product) / to float (a company on the stock market) |
| 才 | cái | (before an expression of quantity) only |
| 天 | tiān | day |
| 就 | jiù | as soon as; immediately after |
| 跃居 | yuè jū | to vault |
| 排行榜 | pái háng bǎng | the charts (of best-sellers) / table of ranking |
| 榜首 | bǎng shǒu | top of the list |
| 这 | zhè | this; these |
| 本 | běn | classifier for books, periodicals, files etc |
| 出版商 | chū bǎn shāng | publisher |
| 企鹅兰登书屋 | Qǐ é Lán dēng Shū wū | Penguin Random House, a major publishing company. |
| 宣布 | xuān bù | to declare / to announce / to proclaim |
| 在 | zài | (of sb or sth) to be (located) at |
| 月 | yuè | month / monthly |
| 日 | rì | sun / day / date, day of the month |
| 后 | hòu | afterwards / after |
| 内 | nèi | within |
| 和 | hé | and; together with |
| 加拿大 | Jiā ná dà | Canada |
| 地区 | dì qū | region; area (informal or geographical term) |
| 售 | shòu | (bound form) to sell; to retail / (literary) to carry out (a plan or intrigue etc) |
| 出 | chū | (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) |
| 超过 | chāo guò | to surpass / to exceed / to outstrip |
| 万 | wàn | ten thousand / a great number |
| 销售 | xiāo shòu | sales (representative, agreement etc) |
| 数据 | shù jù | data |
| 包括 | bāo kuò | to comprise / to include / to involve / to incorporate / to consist of |
| 电子书 | diàn zǐ shū | electronic book / e-book / e-book reader |
| 有声书 | yǒu shēng shū | audiobook |
| 等 | děng | and so on; etc.; et al. / (used to end an enumeration) |
| 各种 | gè zhǒng | every kind of; all kinds of; various |
| 版本 | bǎn běn | version / edition / release |
| 量 | liàng | capacity / quantity / amount |
| 兰登书屋 | Lán dēng Shū wū | Random House; the publishing house. |
| 称 | chēng | to state |
| 意味着 | yì wèi zhe | to signify / to mean / to imply |
| 年 | nián | year |
| 出版 | chū bǎn | to publish |
| 所有 | suǒ yǒu | all |
| 书籍 | shū jí | books / works |
| 中 | zhōng | within; among; in |
| 书 | shū | book |
| 排名 | pái míng | to rank (1st, 2nd etc) |
| 其他 | qí tā | other / (sth or sb) else / the rest |
| 国家 | guó jiā | country; nation; state |
| 也 | yě | also; too; as well; (not ...) either |
| 很 | hěn | very; quite |
| 而且 | ér qiě | (not only ...) but also / moreover / in addition / furthermore |
| 正 | zhèng | exactly / just (at that time) / right (in that place) |
| 被 | bèi | used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb) / (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes |
| 翻译 | fān yì | to translate / to interpret |
| 种 | zhǒng | classifier for types, kinds, sorts |
| 语言 | yǔ yán | language |
| 纽约 | Niǔ yuē | New York |
| 人们 | rén men | people |
| 为了 | wèi le | for; for the purpose of; in order to |
| 获得 | huò dé | to obtain; to receive; to get |
| 米歇尔 | Mǐ xiē ěr | Michel or Mitchell (name) / George Mitchell (1933-), US Democratic party politician and diplomat, influential in brokering Northern Ireland peace deal in 1990s, US Middle East special envoy from 2009 |
| 签名 | qiān míng | signature |
| 严寒 | yán hán | bitter cold |
| 等待 | děng dài | to wait; to wait for |
| 个 | gè | classifier for people or objects in general |
| 小时 | xiǎo shí | hour |
| 结束 | jié shù | to finish / to end / to conclude / to close |
| 十 | shí | ten / 10 |
| 聚光灯 | jù guāng dēng | spotlight |
| 下 | xià | down / downwards / below |
| 生活 | shēng huó | life / livelihood |
| 之后 | zhī hòu | after; behind / (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then |
| 让 | ràng | to permit / to let sb do sth / to have sb do sth / to make sb (feel sad etc) |
| 可以 | kě yǐ | can / may / possible / able to |
| 前所未有 | qián suǒ wèi yǒu | (idiom) unprecedented |
| 地 | de | -ly / structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct |
| 了解 | liǎo jiě | to understand / to realize / to find out |
| 谈到 | tán dào | to refer to / to speak about / to talk about |
| 婚姻 | hūn yīn | marriage; matrimony |
| 种族 | zhǒng zú | race; ethnic group |
| 事业 | shì yè | undertaking / project / activity / (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause / publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation / career / occupation |
| 家庭 | jiā tíng | family; household |
| 与 | yǔ | (formal) with; from (marking the other participant in an interaction, comparison, or contrast) |
| 之 | zhī | him / her / it |
| 相关 | xiāng guān | related / relevant / pertinent |
| 挣扎 | zhēng zhá | to struggle |