A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.
告诉我一些只有你知道的事情，交一个新朋友。
Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.
人生苦短，不能读我不喜欢的书。
They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
他们用别人著作的脂肪把自己精瘦的书涂上猪油。
People tend to find books when they are ready for them.
当人们准备好了书的时候，他们往往会去找。
The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.
肉体，唉，是悲哀的，我读过所有的书。
The public library is where place and possibility meet.
公共图书馆是地点和可能性相遇的地方。
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
书籍是矗立在时间大海上的灯塔。
After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe.
这本书畅销之后，我买了一个全新的衣柜。
Each of them is a book through which other books dream.
每一本书都是其他书梦寐以求的。
Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.
阅读本身不是目的，而是达到目的的手段。
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
书籍是积累智慧的明灯。
Education is for freedom - freedom from mental slavery.
教育是为了自由——摆脱精神奴役的自由。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
优秀的、令人钦佩的读者并不认同书中的男孩或女孩，而是认同构思和创作那本书的人。
The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
事实上，人们认为当你卖了很多书，你不是一个严肃的作家，这是对读者的极大侮辱。当人们试图说这样的话时，我有点生气。
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。
Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
贝琪回到她的椅子上，脱下外套和帽子，打开书，又一次忘记了这个世界。
A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty.
一本没有文字的书，就像一场没有吻的爱情;它是空的。
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
没有书的房间就像没有灵魂的躯体。