We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

  • -- Warren Zevon 沃伦·泽方

我们买书是因为我们相信我们在买时间来阅读它们。

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The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.

每日的媒体,即时的媒体,擅长于提喻,擅长于给我们一个代表更大事物的小事物。地面上的记者,不管是嵌入式的还是其他的,都可以告诉我们或者给我们发送当时在那个地方发生的那些人的照片。

I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way.

我仍然喜欢在期末考试前的几分钟录下来,也就是在考试前发生的事情。也许这是迷信的说法,但我相信如果我做的事情不同——如果我在演播室里走来走去或者走出去——结果就不会是那样。

This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty...what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off-key perhaps, but I will sing.

这不是一本普通意义上的书。不,这是一种长期的侮辱,是对艺术的一颗唾沫,是对上帝、人、命运、时间、爱情、美丽的一脚踢裤子……你会什么。我要为你唱歌,也许有点跑调,但我要唱。

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

这个家庭非常重视圣诞节。我相信圣诞老人的存在,我绝不会做任何事来破坏这种信念。

I was taken up by books, as if by the strong arms of a parent I'd never known and had been badly missing.

我被书吸引住了,就像被一位我从未见过、也严重失踪的母亲的有力臂膀吸引住了一样。

He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

他经常嫉妒那些没有读过他最喜欢的书的人。他们面前有这样的幸福。

When we are connected to the source, we will not be afraid of any task set before us.

当我们连接到源时,我们将不会害怕任何摆在我们面前的任务。

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

阅读是过上美好生活的基本工具。