I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

我不记得读过的书,就像我不记得吃过的饭一样;即便如此,他们还是让我这么做了。

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Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

长时间、不分青红皂白地读书是一项特别吃力不讨好、令人恼火和筋疲力尽的工作。它不仅包括赞美垃圾,还包括不断地对那些没有任何自然感觉的书做出反应。

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

如果所有的印刷商都下定决心不印刷任何东西,除非他们确信这样做不会冒犯任何人,那么印刷出来的东西就会很少。

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

大声朗读意味着不跳绳,不略读,不开门见山。

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

报纸是高血压的循环图书馆。