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Books
That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.
这就是书的意义。他们让你不用动脚就能旅行。
Books have to be read; it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
必须读书;这是发现它们所包含内容的唯一方法。
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
只有非常弱智的人才拒绝受文学和诗歌的影响。
Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.
书就像老朋友一样,封面破旧,书页翻来覆去。
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.
我的生活中虚构的东西比书里的要多,所以我不去管它们。
Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.
有些书虫吃书。吃它们,对它们发誓,把东西洒在上面。
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
还有比焚书更严重的罪行。其中之一就是不读。
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
头脑需要书籍,就像剑需要磨石一样,如果它想保持锋利的话。
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
先读最好的书,否则你可能根本没有机会去读它们。
And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?
怎么可能有人愿意放弃打开的书的气味,不管是旧书还是新书?
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
我讨厌书;他们只教我们谈论我们一无所知的事情。
I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page.
我想拉下一本书,把它打开,一页又一页地狼吞虎咽。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
读一千本书,你的话就会像河流一样流淌。
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
从真正意义上说,读过优秀文学作品的人比那些不会或不愿读的人活得更长。我们并不是只有一次生命;如果我们能读书,我们就能过上更多的生活,过上我们想过的各种各样的生活。
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
我们成为什么样的人,取决于我们在所有教授教完我们之后读了什么书。最伟大的大学是一所藏书的大学。
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
我发现电视很有教育意义。每次有人打开电视,我就去另一个房间看书。
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。