Most boys,and many girls too,have at some time or other
started a stamp collection.Stamp-collecting,or,to call it by its
correct name ,philately,has been an increasing popular hobby from
as early as 1854--for less than two decades after postage stamps
came into use .Today the hobby numbers followers are not only boys and girls,but also men and women from all ranks in society.
So rapidly did the interest in stamp-collecting increase in the
United States of America that in 1921 the United States Post
Office found itself forced to set up a special department to
satisfy the needs of collectors. At present the yearly sales of
this department total over three hundred thousand dollars.
參考答案:大多数的男孩子,还有女孩子,有时候都集过邮。邮票收藏,或者正确的名称,集邮,早到1854年,也就是邮票投入使用之后不到20年之后,已经成为一种日益受欢迎的爱好。如今这种爱好的追随者已不仅仅局限于男孩女孩,而是包含了社会各阶层的男男女女。
美国国内的集邮热情是如此高涨以致于1921年美国邮局不得不建立了一个专门来满足集邮者需求的专门部门。现在,这个部门的年销售额超过30万美金。