The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

  • -- Jane Austen 简·奥斯汀

一个人,不管是绅士还是女士,如果对一本好的小说不感兴趣,那他一定是愚蠢得令人无法忍受。

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They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

他们缺乏暗示力。当一本书缺乏暗示的力量时,不管它触及心灵的表面有多深,它都无法深入其中。

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

道歉吗?呸!真恶心!懦弱!不管他有多错,都有失绅士的尊严。

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

他那上了锁、上了字的黄铜硬领,显出他是一位绅士和学者。

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

这样的真理,既不违背人的利益,也不违背人的快乐,是人人都欢迎的。

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

我们的快乐在质量上比在数量上有更多的不同。

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

有多少人从阅读一本书开始,就把自己的人生带入了一个新的时代。