Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

书籍是伟大的天才留给人类的遗产,它作为礼物代代相传,传给尚未出生的人。

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I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.

我希望在我的书中,我能帮助孩子们看到他们的优点,并向他们展示我对他们偶尔可能经历的事情有一些了解。尤其是在棘手的时刻,回到过去逃避事情比向前面对事情更容易。

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

人们到国外去,对高山的高度、大海的巨浪、河流的长流、浩瀚的海洋的罗盘、星星的圆周运动感到惊奇,而他们自己却毫不惊奇地走过了。

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

让每个人都认为自己是上帝的行为,他的思想是上帝的思想,他的生命是上帝的气息;各人要凭大能的意念和大能的行为,试验自己在天上的作为。

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

最后,由于睡得那么少,读得那么多,他的脑子干瘪了,完全失去了理智。

In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.

在赛车运动中,我们经常处于灰色地带。

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.

我先把书卖了。实际上是给平装本出版商的。我一无所有。我只是有个想法。