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Reading
Writing is defined as a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.
写作被定义为没有人和所有人的对话。
Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
找些书，随便找个地方坐下，自己去读。
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
不要吹灭别人的蜡烛，因为它不会使你的蜡烛更亮。
Never mind reading between the lines, try reading what's on them first.
不要在意字里行间的意思，先看看字里行间的意思。
I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
我在看书……“胶水的历史”——我无法把它放下。
The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
现实世界是一本杂乱无章的书，需要一位优秀的编辑。
Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.
阅读是个人的追求;一个发生在紧闭的门后的故事。
In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.
在书中，我发现生活中的一切都被明目张胆地审查过。
We have won battles that are strange and strong for a carnal man to win.
我们赢得了奇怪而又强大的战斗，一个肉欲的人能赢。
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.
读书对她来说不是一种退路，而是一种理想的生存状态。
A responsible woman sees and accepts only the best in a given situation.
一个负责任的女人在特定的情况下只看到和接受最好的东西。
Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.
她不是那种会扔书的人，她用拳头捶着垫子。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
喜欢读书的人通常是思想高尚、见解高尚的人。
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
优秀的、令人钦佩的读者并不认同书中的男孩或女孩，而是认同构思和创作那本书的人。
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
一个人应该按照他的爱好去读书，因为他把读书当作一种任务，这对他没有什么好处。
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。
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
当我成为国王时，他们不仅有面包和住所，而且还有书本上的教导，因为在思想饥饿的地方，饱腹是没有什么价值的。
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。