I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

  • -- Thomas Babington Macaulay 麦考莱

我宁愿贫穷时住在书屋里,也不愿做一个没有读书欲望的国王。

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Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as 'employee satisfaction results' - might improve.

老板们应该批准员工午睡,而不是指望他们整天不休息地工作。他们甚至可能发现,员工的幸福感——或者管理人员所说的“员工满意度结果”——可能会提高。

This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

这本书一劳永逸地教会了我,借助文字你可以多么容易地逃离这个世界!你可以在书中找到朋友,非常好的朋友。

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.

我不读评论,读评论对我没有任何价值。不管它们是好是坏,它们只会让我感到不好意思。

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

程序必须是为人们阅读而编写的,而且只是顺便为机器执行而编写的。

If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.

如果自助书籍起作用,这将是一个萎缩的行业,而不是一个增长的行业。

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

没有什么比对记忆的渴望更消耗精力,更不合逻辑。

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

我昨天晚上读了约伯记,我不认为神会很好地在其中出现。

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

没有什么是真正有效的,除非你想做别的事情。

Your status has changed. Your Name is changed! You are a new creation.

你的状态改变了。你的名字改了!你是一个新人。

I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book.

我给我的书定价是我想买一本电子书的价格。

The poor man seeks only a crumb, then finds he still hungers.

这个可怜的人只寻求一点面包屑,然后发现他仍然饥饿。

I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.

我从来没有想过要成为一名著名的女演员。

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

什么也不能答应的人,才是真正的穷人。

Desire to give and not always receive.

渴望给予而不总是得到。