Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

  • -- George Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

阅读使唐吉诃德成为一个绅士,但是相信他所读的使他发疯。

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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

文学为现实添彩,而不是简单地描述现实。它丰富了日常生活所需和提供的必要能力;在这方面,它灌溉着我们的生活已经变成沙漠的土地。

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

一个真正的绅士,即使他失去了他所拥有的一切,也不能表现出任何感情。金钱一定比绅士地位低得多,不值得为之烦恼。

He must have seen her shock, because he said, "You can't defeat the power of the book. But you can make it work for you.

他一定看到了她的震惊,因为他说:“你无法击败这本书的力量。但你可以让它为你工作。

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

在英格兰西部住着一位富有的绅士,他的名字叫默顿。