A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
我们在商店里买卖书籍,但实际上书籍没有主人。你在这里看到的每一本书都是某人最好的朋友。
The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation.
人的智慧和知识的形象保存在书中,免除了时间的烦恼,能够永远更新。
If life was a book; every day would be a new page, every month would be a new chapter, and every year would be a new series.
如果生活是一本书;每一天都是新的一页,每个月都是新的一章,每一年都是一个新的系列。
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
图书馆比社区为造福人民所能做的任何其他事情都重要。这是沙漠中永不枯竭的春天。
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
不要借书,因为没有人还书;我的图书馆里只有别人借给我的书。
The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.
让孩子们多读书的最好方法就是给他们一些他们会狼吞虎咽的书,这样他们就会要求再读一本。
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
一个渴望读书的人与一个疲惫的人之间有很大的区别。
The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.
一个充满书籍的图书馆,充满知识的书籍,让我充满恐惧、爱、勇气和无尽的惊奇。
Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.
毫无疑问,那些写长篇小说的人无话可说。 当然,那些写短篇小说的人就更不用说了。
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
这是一个很好的规则,读完一本新书后,在你读完一本旧书之前,绝不允许自己再读一本新书。
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
任何一本书,只要能帮助孩子养成阅读的习惯,使阅读成为他内心深处持续不断的需求之一,对他都是有好处的。
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
我的每一本书都是通过它的气味来认识的,我只要把我的鼻子放在书页之间,就会想起各种各样的事情。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
书籍是心灵的镜子。
I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
我喜欢一切古老的东西:老朋友、旧时代、旧礼节、旧书、旧酒。
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 tightly shut but is a block of paper.
一本书紧紧地合在一起,不过是一张纸。
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
即使在文学和艺术领域,也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反,如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次),十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。