體育老師的副業
Do you find it annoying to see piles of old books occupying your bookshelves? If you’re considering throwing them away, you might want to think twice.
你覺得書架上堆滿舊書很惱人嗎？如果你正在考慮要丟掉這些舊書，你可能要再想想了。
annoying(adj.)煩人的occupy(v.)佔據consider(v.)考慮=think about
A teacher has revealed how he’s made a great deal of money selling secondhand books online.
一位老師最近在網路上分享了他賣二手書賺大錢的成功秘訣。
reveal(v.)透露
Elliott Stoutt spends just 10 hours a week on his hobby while working full time as the Head of PE at a secondary school in Leeds, West Yorkshire. He began his side business by selling board games.
英國西約克郡里茲市的中學體育老師斯托特每週花約10小時的時間來經營他的業餘嗜好。斯托特一開始賣的是桌遊，
PE體育=physical educationsecondary school中學
After realizing books were even more profitable, Elliott began shopping around at secondhand stores and online, reselling the books he finds at a higher price and making a fortune doing it – up to 42,000 pounds a year.
後來他發現書的價錢更高，於是便開始在二手商店和網路上四處比價，將收集到的書用更高的價格重新售出，每年賺得的錢高達42000英鎊。
realize(v.)了解到profitable(adj.)能賺錢的shop around四處比價resell(v.)重新出售make a fortune賺大錢
Elliott runs his business on a platform called Amazon FBA, which stores your products once you send them to their warehouses.
斯托特用Amazon FBA平台來經營他的二手書事業，只要把書寄到這個平台的倉庫，他們就會替你保存商品，
run(v.)經營store(v.)存放warehouse(n.)倉庫
When a buyer purchases a product online, FBA packs it and ships it, saving time and work for the seller.
當有買家在線上訂購書籍時，他們會替你打包商品並運送給買家，替賣家省下處理訂購相關瑣事的時間。
purchase(v.)購買=buy
As Elliott’s business grew, he shared his success on Instagram to encourage people to start their own online business.
斯托特的事業逐漸壯大的同時，他也在Instagram上分享他的成功秘訣，鼓勵大家建立屬於自己的網路事業。
encourage Sb to RV鼓勵某人做某事
“The purpose of sharing my story is to allow anyone to reach out to me for advice and to empower them to sell online,” he said.
他指出：「我分享自己故事的主要目的是要讓大家可以與我交流，我希望可以提供想創業的人一些忠告，讓他們能勇於創業。」
purpose(n.)目的to allow sb to RV讓某人得以做某事reach out to sb主動和人交流empower sb to RV使某人得以做某事