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The Library of Discarded Books
废书图书馆
In 2017, a group of sanitation workers in Ankara, Turkey began to collect books that had been thrown away.
2017年，土耳其安卡拉的一群环卫工人开始收集被丢弃的书籍。
Their goal was to create a small supply of books for other employees to borrow from.
他们的目标是储备少量图书供其他员工借阅。
The workers would salvage any discarded books they found while collecting garbage, in order to make sure that other people would get to read them.
工人们会回收他们在收垃圾时发现的任何被丢弃的书，以确保其他人也能读到这些书。
While this collection began as a supply for the sanitation department’s workers, the story of the discarded books was brought to the attention of the public.
虽然收集的这些书最初是为环卫部门的工人提供的，但这些废书的故事引起了公众的注意。
Soon, residents of Ankara began donating their books to the sanitation department’s collection, instead of throwing them away.
很快，安卡拉的居民开始将他们的书籍捐赠给环卫部门，而不是把书扔掉。
As the once-small book collection started to grow, the sanitation workers decided to open a public library made up of unwanted books.
由于曾经规模很小的藏书开始增多，环卫工人们决定开设一个由废弃书籍组成的公共图书馆。
Today, this library is located in an abandoned brick factory, where there are now chairs and tables so that people can sit and read.
如今，这个图书馆位于一个废弃砖厂里，砖厂里现在也有了椅子和桌子，人们可以坐着阅读。
It contains thousands of different books, both fiction and non-fiction.
图书馆中有数千本不同的书，既有虚构类，也有非虚构类。
In fact, the library has become so successful that schools in Ankara now borrow books from it to use as learning materials.
实际上，这个图书馆已经办得非常成功，以至于现在安卡拉的各所学校都从这里借书，用作学习材料。
