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In two weeks Jules was back. Five Weeks in a Balloon became a best seller, was translated into every civilized language. In 1862, at the age of thirty-four, its author was famous and a success.
兩個星期后，儒勒帶著書稿回到出版社。《氣球上的五個星期》成為最暢銷的書并被譯成多種文字。1862年，34歲的儒勒一舉成名了。
His next book, Voyage to the Centre of the Earth, started his characters off down the crater of a volcano in Iceland. They went through a thousand adventures and finally came sliding out on a lava stream in Italy.
他的第二部書是《地心游記》。這個故事中，眾多人物從冰島的一個火山口下到地心，歷盡千辛萬苦，最后在意大利的一次火山爆發中隨著巖漿來到了地面。
Perhaps the best known of Verne's books is Around the World in 80 Days. Serialized in Le Temps, of Paris, the progress of its hero aroused so much interest that New York and London correspondents sent cables daily to their newspapers reporting the imaginary Phileas Fogg's whereabouts.
也許凡爾納的書中最著名的要數《八十天環游地球》了。這個故事在巴黎的《時代》雜志上連載的時候，書中主人公的命運引起了人們極大的興趣，結果紐約和倫敦的通訊記者們每天 都給自家報紙發電報，報道書中那位虛構的主人公菲力斯·福格的行蹤。
In every country of Europe people made bets on whether Fogg would arrive in London in time to win the bet. Verne artfully kept this popular interest alive: his hero rescued an Indian widow from death, fell in love with her, and almost missed connections on her account; crossing the American plains he was attacked by Red Indians, and arrived in New York to see the ship that was to take him to England only a small speck on the horizon.
關于福格能否及時到達倫敦以贏得賭注這件事，歐洲各國的人都在打著賭。凡爾納巧妙地使人們興趣盎然地關注故事的進展：書中的男主人公把一個印度寡婦從死亡線上拉回來又愛上了她，險些因為她誤了要搭乘的聯運船；他在穿越美洲大平原時遭到了印第安人的襲擊；等他趕到紐約時卻看到那艘要把他帶回倫敦的船已經遠去，在地平線上成為一個小斑點。
Every transatlantic steamship company offered Verne large sums of money if he would place Phileas Fogg aboard one of their ships. The author refused and had his hero charter a vessel. As the world held its breath, Fogg reached London with only minutes to spare, and won his bet.
每家橫渡大西洋的輪船公司都許諾給凡爾納一大筆錢，只要他讓菲力斯·福格搭乘他們公司的任何一艘船。但凡爾納都拒絕了，他讓他的主人公租了一艘船。當全世界都在屏息等待時，福格只提前了幾分鐘趕到了倫敦，贏得他和別人打的賭。
