A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Books
We live for books.
我们为书而生。
I believe in books.
我相信书。
Libraries raised me.
库提高了我。
Books are a narcotic.
书籍是麻醉剂。
Books are my weakness.
书是我的弱点。
We live and breathe words.
我们活着,呼吸着语言。
My books are a word feast.
我的书是一场文字盛宴。
Books are dead men talking.
书是死人在说话。
Love is almost never simple.
爱从来就不简单。
Books are humanity in print.
书是印刷出来的人性。
We become the books we read.
我们成为我们所读的书。
I cannot live without books.
没有书我不能活。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
文学是一种人类活动,它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。
A book tightly shut but is a block of paper.
一本书紧紧地合在一起,不过是一张纸。
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
因此,让我们温柔而仁慈地珍惜知识的手段。让我们敢于读、想、说、写。
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
书有可浅尝者,有可吞食者,少数则须咀嚼消化。
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.
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。
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
那些被世界称为不道德的书,是那些让世界感到羞耻的书。