A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
我们买书是因为我们相信我们在买时间来阅读它们。
I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
我可以读伟大的书,但我对伟大的书不感兴趣。
I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.
我不喜欢高级文学,但我认为我所有的书都是文学作品。
Depending on the reception of the reader, books have their own fate.
取决于读者的接受程度,书籍有自己的命运。
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place.
把自己的书放在一个陌生的地方是个好主意。
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
在书中,我不仅游历了其他的世界,而且进入了我自己的世界。
When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.
当我发现图书馆的时候,就像每天都过圣诞节一样。
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
他们焚烧书籍的地方,最终会焚烧人类。
I'm trying to make myself invisible. that's an odd thing to attempt.
我想让自己隐形。这种尝试很奇怪。
You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.
你记录和庆祝错误,把失败转化为成功。
One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.
一个人只有用金钱才能与金钱斗争!从我的岩石碎片的故事。
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
历史的创造者总是玩弄我们的无能和无知。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
当我们不得不呆在原地的时候,阅读给了我们一个地方去。
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
这就是我们的生活,远离了公众的纠缠,在树木中找到了语言,在奔流的小溪中找到了书籍,在石头中找到了布道,在一切事物中找到了美好。
A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
一本书证明了人类有能力使用魔法。
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
当我们阅读一个故事时,我们会沉浸其中。这本书的封面像一个屋顶和四面墙。接下来要发生的事情将发生在故事的四面墙之内。这是可能的,因为故事的声音使一切成为自己的。
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
凡是有钱的单身汉,总想娶位太太,这已经成了一条举世公认的真理。
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。