A teaching application sent by?JK Rowling?before the publication of the first?Harry Potter?book has gone up for sale for a six-figure sum.
《哈利波特》第一部出版前，JK羅琳曾申請(qǐng)過教師崗，目前該申請(qǐng)表售價(jià)已達(dá)六位數(shù)。

The 12-page bundle, which documents Rowling's application for a teacher spot at Leith Academy, a state school in Edinburgh, is being sold for $250,000 (￡194,721) by?Moments In Time, a seller of rare items,?TMZ?reported.
據(jù)媒體《TMZ?》報(bào)道，長(zhǎng)達(dá)12頁的申請(qǐng)表記載了羅琳申請(qǐng)?jiān)趷鄱”ぶ萘W(xué)校教書的經(jīng)過，目前由稀有物品賣家Moments In Time開價(jià)25萬美元，進(jìn)行售賣。

Rowling signed the forms on 21 June, 1996. At that time, she has finished the manuscript for?Harry Potter?and the Philosopher's Stone, had secured representation, and was looking for a publishing house.
1996年6月21日，羅琳填寫了申請(qǐng)表，當(dāng)時(shí)她剛完成《哈利波特與魔法石》手稿，確保了署名權(quán)，正在尋找出版社。

Just two months after Rowling sent her teaching?application, Bloomsbury agreed to publish the first volume of the?Harry Potter?series.?
就在羅琳申請(qǐng)教師崗兩個(gè)月后，彭博同意出版哈利波特系列第一卷。

The author signed her book deal in August 1996 and the novel came out the following year, in June 1997.
1996年8月羅琳簽了合同，1997年6月小說就出版了。

Rowling did go on to teach at Leith Academy. She said on T in 2016 that she still occasionally encounters some of her former students.
不過羅琳確實(shí)也曾去任教，2016年，她在推特上說偶爾還會(huì)遇到之前的學(xué)生。

She listed those qualifications in her application for Leith Academy, in addition to her experience teaching adolescents in Portugal.
羅琳在申請(qǐng)表中列出了所有學(xué)習(xí)經(jīng)歷，以及曾在葡萄牙教授青少年。

The salary listed for the teaching?position is of?￡16,572 ($21,276) per annum.?
教書崗的年薪是16572英鎊。

Rowling, whose manuscript was rejected 12 times before finding a home and who was warned not to quit her day job, ended up doing just that. Her net worth has now reached?￡700m?($898m) according to?The Sunday Times.
而在找到出版社前，羅琳的小說被拒絕了12次，也被提醒絕對(duì)不能丟掉正職，但是羅琳還是辭去了老師的工作。據(jù)媒體《The Sunday Times》報(bào)道，羅琳目前凈身家達(dá)7億英鎊。

（翻譯：阿忙）