A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
阅读
Reading
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
你不需要焚书来摧毁一种文化。让人们停止阅读。
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
写作的唯一目的是让读者更好地享受生活或更好地忍受生活。
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。
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
我宁愿贫穷时住在书屋里，也不愿做一个没有读书欲望的国王。
Owning a book is a third of the goal. The others are actually reading it and applying it.
拥有一本书是目标的三分之一。其他人正在阅读并应用它。
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
没有人能读懂一本深奥的书，除非他至少读过其中的一部分内容，并亲身经历过。
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
书和门是一回事。你打开它们，进入另一个世界。
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
阅读一切好书就像与过去几个世纪最杰出的人交谈。
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
你的书是如此的特别和珍贵，以至于宣扬你的感情感觉像是背叛。
Maturity of a woman is not in her age or size for age is just a number and size is figure.
成熟的女人不是在她的年龄或身材，因为年龄只是一个数字，而身材就是身材。
There were no books in the Afterwards, which the people thought was some serious bullshit.
后来没有书了，人们认为那是一派胡言。
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
一旦我们学会了阅读，词汇的意义就会不知何故在无意识中显现出来。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
一本真正伟大的书应该在青年时读，在成熟时读，在老年时读，就像一座精美的建筑应该在晨光、正午和月光下看一样。
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。
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。
How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
这样度过一个晚上是多么愉快啊!我声明，毕竟没有什么享受像阅读!一个人对任何事情的厌倦都比厌倦一本书快得多!要是我有了自己的房子，要是没有一间漂亮的书房，那才叫可怜呢。
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。
Literature is news that stays news.
文学是保持新闻的新闻。