The advance is only an advance.

“预付稿仅仅是预付稿。

The sum would have been worth $60bn before the second world war.

二战前这笔稿的价于600亿美元。

We have to move fast, before the money comes in for Eli's script.

我们必须快速行动，要赶在伊莱的剧本稿到账前。

The cash prize was five hundred dollars, by far his biggest paycheck for a story.

奖金是五百美元，远远超过他任何一篇小说的稿收入。

A guy who talks like that to an old man really oughta get stepped on.

一份稿是三块钱! - 你为什么要那样子对他说话?

She said, They are giving me an advance of five hundred pounds, and they've sold the paperback rights already.

女孩说他们要预付我五百英镑的稿，而且他们已经把平装本的版权卖掉了。”

I sent the money to a PayPal account.

稿汇到一个PayPal账号。

Oh, I'd get a lot more than $250.

我的稿远不止250美元。

How much? You mean, of the royalties?

有多少 你是指稿吗？

That will bring us a tidy sum. - No. No, it won't.

能赚不少稿 - 不 不会的。

There's so much. - For giving you my story money.

那么多事情呢 - 谢我把稿给了你。

That guy spent one week with Marilyn, and he is still living off the royalties.

那个莲梦露待了一周的家伙，现在还靠这个赚着稿呢。

The editor offers to buy Frank's twelve-hundredword vignette, “The Lady in the Trunk, ” for twenty-five dollars plus a dozen cc's—contributor's copies.

编辑提出要采用弗兰克写的一篇小文，全文只有一千二百单词，题为《箱中女子》，稿是二十五美元，再加十二本样刊。

Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it.

的确，我写小说确实赚了不少钱，但我从来不曾为了要拿稿而落笔写过哪怕一个字。

He gave me a huge roll of yellow paper on which to type my copy—I think I still have it somewhere—and promised me a wage of half a cent a word.

他给了我一大卷黄色纸，让我把稿子用打字机打在上面——我想我到现在都还留着这些纸呢——然后我说稿是一个单词半美分。

A few such agents are reputable (the Scott Meredith Agency used to read for fees; I don't know if they still do or not) , but all too many are unscrupulous fucks.

这种经纪人中有几个声誉还不错(斯格特·梅瑞狄斯经纪公司曾经收过看稿；但我不知道他们现在还收不收了），但绝大多数都是些不要脸的混蛋。

Then we would talk of agents and the offers they had obtained for us; of editors and the sort of contributions they welcomed, how much they paid a thousand, and whether they paid promptly or otherwise.

再以后我们还要谈论一些出版代理人和他们为我们作家搞到的门路。我们还要谈论编辑和他们欢迎哪类作品，一千字付多少稿，是很快付清呢，还是拖泥带水。

When we had done discussing the merits of the latest book, it was natural to wonder how many copies had been sold, what advance the author had received, and how much he was likely to make out of it.

在我们品评完毕一本新书的优劣后，自然要猜测一下这本书销售掉多少本，作者得到多少预支稿，他一共能得到多少钱。

The manuscript was privately dispatched, accompanied by a note, modestly saying that if the tale didn't get the prize, which the writer hardly dared expect, she would be very glad to receive any sum it might be considered worth.

稿子以保密急件寄了出去，附上一封短信，谦逊地声称作者不敢奢望这个故事能赢得奖金，只要能得到一笔被认为与其价称的稿就十分高兴了。

When I was in the eighth grade, I happened upon a paperback novel by Murray Leinster, a science fiction pulp writer who did most of his work during the forties and fifties, when magazines like Amazing Stories paid a penny a word.

我读八年级的时候，碰巧读了一本穆瑞·莱恩斯特的简装版小说，莱恩斯特是位通俗科幻作家，作品主要写于四五十年代，时像《神奇故事》这种杂志出的稿是每个词一美分。