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.

  • -- C. S. Lewis C.S.刘易斯

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。

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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

从真正意义上说,读过优秀文学作品的人比那些不会或不愿读的人活得更长。我们并不是只有一次生命;如果我们能读书,我们就能过上更多的生活,过上我们想过的各种各样的生活。

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

我喜欢读书和写作,但后来发生了一些事。在我完成学业的过程中,我不断收到别人递给我的书,这些书既不能让我兴奋,也与我的生活现实毫无关联。

Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

数十个国家已同意参与监测,并在必要时在公海拦截和登船,以防它们被怀疑从事其中一项或两项威胁活动。

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.

如果把艺术仅仅作为一种社会洞察力的手段,幻想就被剥夺了成为普通事物的机会,而现实则被剥夺了成为异国情调的机会。

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

在年轻人的世界里,关于贫困的文学作品并不多见。我不知道这是为什么,但我想我确实感到了差距。

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

他只学了一半的阅读艺术,而没有加上更高雅的跳绳和略读的艺术。

To condescend effectively it is clearly necessary to adhere to a narrow definition of relevant data.

为了有效地屈尊俯就,显然有必要坚持对相关数据的狭隘定义。

Books are a poor substitute for female company, but they are easier to find.

书籍是女性伴侣的可怜替代品,但它们更容易找到。

Never mind reading between the lines, try reading what's on them first.

不要在意字里行间的意思,先看看字里行间的意思。

I think literature reveals more about us than history does.

我认为文学比历史更能揭示我们。