A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

  • -- Henry Brooke 亨利·布鲁克

一本书可以和你的邻居相比:如果它是好的,它不会持续太久;如果情况不好,你不能过早地摆脱它。

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Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.

词汇有时会被用来混淆视听,但这取决于语言研究的实践者如何将其应用于善而非恶。它就像火一样;火可以加热你的房子,也可以把它烧掉。

Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.

孩子从榜样中学到的东西比你说的任何东西都多;我相信他们很早就学会了,不是听你说什么,而是看你做什么。

In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.

在早期的草稿中,它从来没有让我满意过,那是当它点击到位的时候,它就像一本日记一样运行得很好。

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

当你翻到最后一页的时候,你知道你读了一本好书,感觉就像失去了一个朋友。