Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

书就像被囚禁的灵魂,直到有人把它们从书架上取下来,释放它们。

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I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.

我以前很喜欢看他踢球,所以和他一起踢球是一种乐趣。我也许会取笑他,但在内心深处,我对他非常钦佩。

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

我们面临着一个矛盾的事实:教育已成为智力和思想自由的主要障碍之一。

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

作家写一本书是为了忘记一本书,而读者读一本书是为了记住它。

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

在印刷术出现之前,书籍基本上是奢侈品。

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

自由始于我们意识到它。

After all is said and done, sit down.

说了这么多,做了这么多,坐下吧。