A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
阅读
Reading
I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
我不读这么无聊的东西。生命太短暂了。
I have never been able to resist a book about books.
我从来都无法抗拒一本关于书的书。
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
有一天我读了一本书,我的整个生活被改变了。
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
这不是一本书。凡摸这饼的,就是摸人。
One reads so as not to believe everything one reads.
读书是为了不相信所读的一切。
Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
阅读可能是在一个地方的另一种方式。
Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
读好书会毁了你读坏书的兴致。
I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
我打算忍受我所能忍受的一切。
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
读书之于心灵,犹如运动之于身体。
Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.
人生苦短,不要把时间浪费在坏书上。
If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
如果你是个孩子,读书真的很重要。
Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.
大声朗读自己的材料迫使你去听。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
三思而后行。三思而后行。
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
没有道德或不道德的书。书要么写得好,要么写得不好。
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。
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
如果一个人不能一次又一次地享受读书的乐趣,那么读书就毫无用处。
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。
When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
当读者进入一本诗集,他或她进入一个世界,在那里梦想把过去变成适用于现在的知识,在那里幻想把现在塑造成未来的非凡可能性。