A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.
我喜欢的书。没有一间屋子没有一排书是适合居住的。
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
书籍是消除无聊和空虚的最好解毒剂。
Based on a true story?No, thanks. I prefer based on a true imagination.
根据真实故事改编?不,谢谢。我更喜欢基于真实的想象。
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.
当男性作家写爱情故事时,女主人公往往以死亡告终。
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
人们没有意识到一本书可以改变一个人的一生。
Flowers don't tell, they show. That's the way good books should be too.
花不会说出来,它们会表现出来。好书也应该如此。
Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.
书陪伴着我,塑造了我,对我的生活产生了巨大的影响。
The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
现实世界是一本杂乱无章的书,需要一位优秀的编辑。
Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
有些人甚至在平装本出版之前就发现自己的生活被缩短了。
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
永远不要给孩子一本你自己都不会读的书。
Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
哦,我想每个作家都从她读过的书中受到启发。
Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
好书使人爱问问题。坏读者想要所有的答案。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
如果你有一个花园和一个图书馆,你就拥有了你所需要的一切。
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。
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。
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
我仍然觉得每一天都太短了,我无法去想所有的事情,我无法去散步,我无法读所有的书,我无法去见所有的朋友。
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。
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
人类所做的、想过的或曾经做过的一切,都像魔法一样保存在书页之中。