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Libraries
Libraries are where it all begins.
图书馆是一切开始的地方。
A library implies an act of faith.
图书馆意味着一种信仰的行为。
When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.
当事情变得棘手时，棘手的人会找个图书管理员。
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
对历史学家来说，图书馆是食物、庇护所，甚至是灵感之源。
Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends.
图书馆是被破坏的人去找朋友的地方。
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
没有图书馆，我们还有什么?我们没有过去，也没有未来。
I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.
我喜欢图书馆。知识可以保存这么长时间，这是一种安慰。我们学到的东西可以传承下去。
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
图书馆代表全人类保存这些记录。独特的和荒谬的，明智的和愚蠢的碎片。
We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.
我们应该烧毁所有的图书馆，只保留那些每个人都熟记在心的东西。一个美丽的传奇时代将开始。
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
图书馆、演讲室和实验室的气氛对那些把自己关在里面太久的人来说是危险的。它像雾一样把我们和现实分开。
What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
过去四年，市政厅一直在关闭娱乐中心和图书馆。我们没有在市政厅照看我们的孩子。
I think everything belongs in a certain place, for kids who feel they don't belong anywhere. A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.
我认为所有的东西都应该放在一个特定的地方，对于那些觉得自己不属于任何地方的孩子来说。博物馆是一个像图书馆一样的机构，在那里所有的东西都有一个地方，所有的东西都属于它。
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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
就像我们长大后不再穿裤子一样，我们也不再穿熟人、图书馆、原则等等，有时裤子还没穿坏，有时——这是最糟糕的——还没有新裤子。
We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.
我们在与一切竞争:海滩、商场、书店。图书馆现在正处于转型之中，夹在两股力量之间，一股是旧的方式，另一股是技术。图书馆承受着提供这两种服务的巨大压力。
Just this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution.
就在本周，我丈夫提出了一项计划，让学校和图书馆制定自己的计划，防止孩子们在互联网上找到不雅内容，作为国会提案的替代方案。
Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.
孩子们必须有机会接触到书，很多孩子不能去商店买书。我们不仅需要适当的公共图书馆经费和人员，而且需要适当的学校图书馆。许多孩子不能去公共图书馆，他们唯一拥有的图书馆是学校图书馆。
The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.
事实上，我们的孩子不读书——或者坦白地说，最近什么都不读书。学校资金不足，一些学校甚至关闭了图书馆。家长们必须意识到，让孩子们养成读书取乐的习惯是他们的工作，而不是学校的工作。