The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

  • -- Laurence Sterne 劳伦斯·斯特恩

使用书籍最成功的方法是像某些人做领主一样为他们服务;学习他们的头衔,然后吹嘘他们的熟人。

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It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.

重要的不是你做了多少动作,有多少互动,如果是真实的,就会散发出可信度的味道。如果是人为的,它似乎在一段时间内对那些不能过滤真实和不真实的人有效。

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

因此,对促进一项研究和对最完全占用时间的其他工作的职责的促进存在着一种强大的吸引力,而这比任何科学知识对其他工作的促进作用都要小。

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

只要对历史稍有了解,就会发现,强大的共和国是最好战、最肆无忌惮的国家。

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

当你翻到最后一页的时候,你知道你读了一本好书,你会觉得好像失去了一位朋友。

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

我认识的大多数人生活在一个不断向前的方向,一直在向后看。

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.

是的,在我的书中,我确实对自己进行了编辑,以免成为乡村讲解员。