美国国家公共电台 NPR Tower Records Founder Russ Solomon Has Died At Age 92
时间：2019-01-16 作者：英语课 分类：2018年NPR美国国家公共电台3月
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
The founder 1 of Tower Records has died. Russ Solomon was 92 years old. He started selling records in his father's drugstore and built a chain that was mecca for many in the days when you bought music by flipping 2 through the albums or tapes in a bin 3. Here's NPR's Anastasia Tsioulcas.
ANASTASIA TSIOULCAS, BYLINE 4: Russ Solomon opened his first stand-alone store in 1960 in Sacramento, Calif. By its peak in the 1990s, Tower had nearly 200 stores in places as far-flung as Tokyo and London, with sales of more than $1 billion. Music nerds loved Tower because you could find everything there decades before streaming services made access to music instant. Bruce Springsteen raved 5 about the story in "All Things Must Pass," director Colin Hanks' 2015 documentary about the chain.
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: If you came into town, you went to Tower Records.
TSIOULCAS: But in 2006, Tower declared bankruptcy 6. Solomon and his team didn't foresee the digital revolution. People were starting to buy downloads. File-sharing sites like Napster were becoming common. And big-box stores like Walmart and Best Buy sold popular CDs on big discounts. Tower Records just couldn't compete. Even after his chain's collapse 7, Russ Solomon couldn't stay away from the album bins 8. Before he finally retired 9, he and his wife ran a little record store back in Sacramento for a few years. His motto was, no music, no life. Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR News, New York.
- He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
- According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。
- He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
- He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。
- His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
- We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
- Andrew raved all night in his fever. 安德鲁发烧时整夜地说胡话。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They raved about her beauty. 他们过分称赞她的美。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产，就必须节省开支。
- His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。
- The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
- The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
- Garbage from all sources was deposited in bins on trolleys. 来自各方的垃圾是装在手推车上的垃圾箱里的。 来自辞典例句
- Would you be pleased at the prospect of its being on sale in dump bins? 对于它将被陈列在倾销箱中抛售这件事，你能欣然接受吗？ 来自辞典例句