A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
阅读
Reading
We live for books.
我们为书而生。
Libraries raised me.
库提高了我。
Man is what he reads.
人就是他所读的东西。
Reading is not optional.
阅读不是可选的。
Books are absent teachers
书没有老师
Reading can be dangerous.
阅读是很危险的。
Fiction is life by design.
小说是设计出来的生活。
Reading maketh a full man.
读书使人充实。
We live and breathe words.
我们活着，呼吸着语言。
A wicked book cannot repent.
一本坏书不会后悔。
I don't read a lot of books.
我不怎么读书。
We become the books we read.
我们成为我们所读的书。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
没有作家的眼泪，就没有读者的眼泪。作家不感到惊讶，读者也不感到惊讶。
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
一本真正伟大的书应该在青年时读，在成熟时读，在老年时读，就像一座精美的建筑应该在晨光、正午和月光下看一样。
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
读书不是为了反驳和驳倒，也不是为了相信和想当然……而是要权衡和考虑。
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
经典是一本永远没有把它要说的话说完的书。
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。