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Reading
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
我会做一些事情，比如坐上出租车说:“去图书馆，然后踩上去。”
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
我能在读书的时候快乐地读书，这是一种莫大的福气。
The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.
费米实验室的负责人十岁的时候就开始读一些惊人的故事。
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。
Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.
大声朗读意味着不跳绳，不略读，不开门见山。
Your status has changed. Your Name is changed! You are a new creation.
你的状态改变了。你的名字改了!你是一个新人。
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
有些书太熟悉了，读起来就像回到了家。
All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
所有的芭蕾舞，所有的阅读，所有的音乐。那是我的世界，我的内心世界。
I couldn't convince her that if I had a book with me, I wasn't lonely.
我无法说服她，如果我带着一本书，我并不孤独。
Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
等待把男人变成谷仓里的熊，女人变成口袋里的猫。
I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.
从我能够阅读起，我就爱上了图书馆的这种灾难。
Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.
有人看到成年男子在阅读了贴在外面的菜单后逃跑。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
We read to know we are not alone.
我们读书是为了知道我们并不孤单。
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
当你老了，头发花白，睡意朦胧，在炉火旁打盹时，请取下这本书，慢慢地读，梦见你曾经眼神柔和，阴影深沉。
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
当我阅读伟大的文学作品、伟大的戏剧、演讲或布道时，我觉得人类的心灵除了通过语言来分享情感和思想外，没有取得任何更大的成就。
A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
一本书证明了人类有能力使用魔法。
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
头脑需要书籍，就像剑需要磨石一样，如果它想保持锋利的话。
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。