Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

  • -- David McCullough 戴维·麦卡洛

从来没有什么发明像一本好书那样给人以如此多的养料和如此无尽的时间回报。

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God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his.

上帝啊,他想,她的眼睛是那么明亮,闪烁,深邃,充满希望,所有这些东西眼睛都在书里,但从来没有在生活中,而她是他的。

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

我们的文明已经失去了这种时间与时间之间的联系,倾向于用一个尺度来衡量时间,一点一点地,从一个点到另一个点。

I can't really work on more than one thing at a time.

我一次只能做一件事。

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

好书是由好读者写出来的。