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Reading
Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
别理她……她读了很多书。
Books are best preserved in the minds of readers.
书最好保存在读者的心中。
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
作家只是开始写一本书。读者完成它。
An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.
花一个小时读书是偷来的天堂。
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.
读一本书就像为自己重新写一遍。
Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.
有时我不喜欢我正在读的书。
Sometimes it is safer to read maps with your feet.
有时候用脚看地图更安全。
Be positive at all times! Leave out the negatives.
任何时候都要积极!把底片拿掉。
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
哪里的人性像书店那么脆弱?
The end of reading is not more books but more life.
读书的目的不在于多读书,而在于多生活。
I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
通过阅读有关上海的书籍,我确实收获了很多。
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
我不是个快速阅读者。我是一个理解速度的人。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
文学为现实添彩,而不是简单地描述现实。它丰富了日常生活所需和提供的必要能力;在这方面,它灌溉着我们的生活已经变成沙漠的土地。
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
学习读书就是点燃一团火;每一个拼出来的音节都是火花。
I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.
我希望在我的书中,我能帮助孩子们看到他们的优点,并向他们展示我对他们偶尔可能经历的事情有一些了解。尤其是在棘手的时刻,回到过去逃避事情比向前面对事情更容易。
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
的经典。这是一本人们赞美却不读的书。
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
书是飞机、火车和道路。它们是目的地,也是旅程。他们都回家了。
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
直到我害怕失去它,我才喜欢读书。人不爱呼吸。