A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Reading
Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore.
不要再让任何情况吓倒你,不要再接受失败。
If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.
如果我在阅读的时候没有得到鼓点因子,那我就做不到。
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
读书使人充实。善于交谈的人;写一个严谨的人。
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
散漫的读者很少因其学习的准确性而引人注目。
Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.
继续阅读。这是任何人都能经历的最奇妙的冒险之一。
Reading makes me feel like I've lived a thousand lives in addition to my own.
阅读让我觉得除了自己的生活,我还经历了一千种生活。
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
你永远找不到一杯足够大的茶或一本书足够长来适合我。
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.
有很多糟糕的编辑试图把自己的观点强加在一本书上。
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
一旦你读了一本你喜欢的书,它的一部分就会一直伴随着你。
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
买书是一件好事,如果我们也能买时间来阅读。
The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.
诀窍在于,要教会自己在小口啜饮和长时间吞咽中阅读。
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
书籍是蜜蜂,把花粉从一个头脑传到另一个头脑。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
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。
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
我想知道的都在书里;我最好的朋友会给我一本我没读过的书。
A word after a word after a word is power.
一个字接一个字就是力量。
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。