The summer afternoon was hot, but no one in the queue seemed bothered. Dozens were patiently waiting to enter Shakespeare and Company, a storied bookshop perched on the left bank of the Seine opposite Notre Dame cathedral.(几十人耐心等待进入莎士比亚书店，这家传奇书店坐落在塞纳河左岸，正对巴黎圣母院。) “That’s where Shakespeare wrote for a while,” a passerby informed her friends. No one corrected her—discretion being the better part of valour(谨慎是勇敢的重要部分) and all.
夏日午后酷热难耐，但排队的人们似乎并不在意。几十个人耐心地等待着进入莎士比亚书店——这家传奇书店坐落在塞纳河左岸，正对巴黎圣母院。“莎士比亚曾在那里写作过一段时间，”一位路人告诉她的朋友们。没有人纠正她——毕竟，谨慎是勇敢的重要组成部分。
“The myth-telling(神话讲述，编造故事) is fascinating,” says Sylvia Whitman, who runs the English-language bookshop with her partner. “It adds to the house of stories that a bookshop can be.” She has heard it all: that Shakespeare, who never left England, resided(居住，定居) here, or that Sylvia Plath(西尔维娅·普拉斯，美国诗人), another poet, founded it.
“神话讲述非常迷人，”西尔维娅·惠特曼说，她和伴侣一起经营这家英文书店。“它为书店所能成为的故事之家增添了色彩。”她听过各种说法：有人说从未离开过英格兰的莎士比亚曾住在这里，还有人说另一位诗人西尔维娅·普拉斯创办了这家书店。
In fact, Shakespeare and Company was launched(创办，发起) by Ms Whitman’s father, George, 75 years ago this month (first under the name Le Mistral). It is probably the most famous bookshop in the world, enjoying a halo from its proximity(接近，邻近) to some of literature’s patron saints(守护神，保护圣徒). Around 2,000-3,000 people visit each day—nearly 1m a year—spurred(激励，促进) by the shop’s hundreds of thousands of social-media followers. It claims more impressive screen credits(影视作品中的署名) than many actors, having appeared in Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris”(伍迪·艾伦的《午夜巴黎》), Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunset” and a French film, “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life”. A hit TV series, “Emily in Paris(《艾米丽在巴黎》)”, asked to feature it, but Ms Whitman declined. The bookshop already contends with(与……斗争，应对) so many selfie-snappers.
事实上，莎士比亚书店是惠特曼女士的父亲乔治在75年前的本月创办的（最初名为“密史脱拉风”）。它可能是世界上最著名的书店，因与文学界的守护神们近在咫尺而享有光环。每天约有2000至3000人参观——每年近100万——这得益于书店数十万的社交媒体粉丝。它拥有的影视出镜次数比许多演员还多，曾出现在伍迪·艾伦的《午夜巴黎》、理查德·林克莱特的《爱在日落黄昏时》以及法国电影《简·奥斯汀毁了我的生活》中。热门电视剧《艾米丽在巴黎》曾请求取景，但惠特曼女士拒绝了。书店已经要应付太多自拍者了。
