Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.

  • -- Geraldine Brooks 杰拉尔丁·布鲁克斯

在你打开它之前,这本书根本不是未经训练的人会看两遍的。

相关名言

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

书的好处在于被人阅读。书是由一些符号组成的,这些符号代表着其他符号,而这些符号又代表着事物。如果没有眼睛去阅读,一本书所包含的符号就不会产生任何概念;所以它是哑的。

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

如果你手里拿着一本书,你就是一个新城市的朝圣者。