The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

  • -- George Gissing 乔治?吉辛

我第一次读到一本优秀的作品,对我来说就像交了一个新朋友;当我读一本我以前读过的书时,它就像一本旧书的相遇。

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It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.

比大多数人看得更清楚是摄影师工作的一部分。他必须具有并保持一种孩子初次看世界或进入陌生国家时的那种接受能力。

These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar.

这些都是很好的教训,可以使他放松下来,使他的手变轻。但是,没有什么比我的新柱子法更能使马的腿发软,从而使他的手变轻了。

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

我的注意力水平阻碍了一切。专注是一些运动员比其他人更优秀的原因。你在训练中培养这种专注力,在比赛中集中精力。

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

当我发现故事书是由人写的,书并不是自然奇观,而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候,我感到既震惊又失望。

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

今天剩下的时间我都在听别人的故事。在我把书放下的那些难得的时刻,我自己的痛苦又回到了刺痛的感觉中。

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

老年是愤怒的绝佳时机。我的目标是每周至少说或做一件令人发指的事情。

There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.

有些事情是像时间一样古老的,而知道一个男人什么时候想要你就是其中之一。

It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.

很难被人看见,所以我让自己隐形了。

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

读书的目的不在于多读书,而在于多生活。

Books belong to their readers.

书是属于读者的。