A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
读者
Reader
I'm a lousy reader.
我的阅读能力很差。
Will the reader turn the page?
读者会翻过这一页吗?
It takes a great reader to make a great book.
伟大的读者才能写出伟大的书。
I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
在我成为作家之前，我是个十足的读者。
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
我是一个如饥似渴的作家，正如我是一个读者一样。
What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
什么读者希望被告知罢工的态度?
I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.
我有一种近乎病态的恐惧，害怕让读者感到无聊。
The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.
问题是，读者不想听到糟糕的时代。
I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.
我不怎么看杂志，看书也很讨厌。
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
写备忘录不是为了通知读者，而是为了保护作者。
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
一个读者在他死之前经历了一千次生命。从不读书的人只活一次。
Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
理想的情况是，一本书没有顺序，读者必须找到自己的顺序。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
我写的东西是写给那些愿意接受读者和作者之间的新关系的人的。
Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.
早期，一个故事的意义和基本原理似乎很明显，但是当我写它的时候，我意识到我太了解这个意义/基本原理了，这意味着读者也会知道它——所以事情必须加快速度。
As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn't. My son is forever gonna believe that I'm an honest person or I'm a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read.
作为一个牧师和一个父亲，我想让我的儿子知道我说的是实话。他能读这本书。他知道我是否夸大其词。我儿子会永远相信我是一个诚实的人或者我在那本书里写的是一个骗子，因为他能读懂。
Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
读了这些墓志铭，我们唯一的救赎就是复活死者，埋葬生者。
To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.
愿意为了感动读者而死。即使是现在，我也担心这句话印出来会有多傻。
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
这也是口述传记的乐趣之一，因为读者，而不是编辑，是陪审团。