A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
书
Book
A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
报纸是高血压的循环图书馆。
I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.
我没有读过关于如何成为一个适应良好的名人的书。
The only bad book was a book that didn't have any pages in it.
唯一的坏书是一本没有书页的书。
A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.
一本书应该是一把斧子，劈开我们内心冰冷的大海。
Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.
在我的书中，大量的计算机图形相当于一个糟糕的视频。
Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass.
没有智慧的知识是驮在驴背上的一堆书。
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
自己写文章的人比自己写书的人更聪明。
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
我的书是以人物为导向的。他们不是被故事所驱使。
It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.
我想，出版那本书更令人兴奋。
I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.
我想去波特兰，因为那是一个非常好的书城。
If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.
如果你想成为普通人，你就不会读这本书。
My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.
我最喜欢的书总是我正在写的那本。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.
我不认为哀叹世界现状有什么意义，除非你能想出什么办法来改善它。否则，就不要写书了;去找一个热带岛屿，躺在阳光下。
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
要写一本真正有趣的书，一个人必须接受很多惩罚。
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
一本文笔优美的书就像一张魔毯，把我们带到一个我们无法以任何其他方式进入的世界。
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
书不过是废纸，除非我们把睡着时获得的智慧付诸行动。当我们对生者感到厌倦时，我们可以向死者寻求安慰，因为他们在谈话中没有丝毫的乖戾、骄傲和故意。
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you've lost a friend.
当你翻到最后一页的时候，你知道你读了一本好书，感觉就像失去了一个朋友。
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
书籍让我们进入他们的灵魂，向我们敞开我们自己的秘密。