A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
书
Book
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
选择作家就像选择朋友一样。
Your love to me was like an unread book.
你对我的爱就像一本未读的书。
Scholars talk books, butchers talk pigs.
学者谈书，屠夫谈猪。
Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare.
读者多，思考者少。
A book that remains shut, is but a block.
开卷有益。
For each book, the time is also broken up.
对于每一本书，时间也是被分割的。
Why don't you write books people can read?
你为什么不写一些人们能读的书呢?
The covers of this book are too far apart.
这本书的封面相隔太远。
Why by a book when you can join a library.
为什么要借一本书当你可以加入图书馆。
Don't judge a book by its thickness either.
不要以貌取人。
He won't, won't he? Then bring me my boots.
他不会，不会吗?然后把我的靴子拿来。
What you don't know would make a great book.
你不知道的会成为一本好书。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
一切书籍都可以分为二类，即:一时之书和永久之书。
An unread book does nobody any good.
没有读过的书对任何人都没有好处。
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
书并不是绝对没有生命的东西，但书中确实包含着生命的力量，使之像它的后代那样活跃;不，它们确实像小瓶一样，保存着孕育它们的活生生的智慧的最纯粹的效力和精华。
No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.
任何一位绅士都离不开三本书:一本供展示，一本供使用，一本供借阅。
I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.
我不知道编辑们会怎么看，也不知道他们会怎么接受。但在某种程度上，我希望下一本书，当人们拿起来读的时候，能把他们吓得魂飞魄散。
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
我宁愿贫穷时住在书屋里，也不愿做一个没有读书欲望的国王。