A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
阅读
Reading
You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.
你不允许遭受别人所遭受的痛苦，你不允许失败或英年早逝。
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
我读着一本枯燥的书睡着了，梦见自己还在继续读，所以我从无聊中醒来。
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
我想:可怜那些精神贫乏的人吧，他们既不懂语言的魅力，也不懂语言的美丽。
A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfort ability and pleasantness about her.
一个自信的女人面带微笑，浑身洋溢着舒适、能干和愉悦的气息。
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。
On the day of judgment, it will be demanded of us not what we have read, but what we have done.
在审判的日子，要求我们的不是我们所读的，而是我们所做的。
I love reading I know it’s very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it.
我喜欢阅读，我知道它很重要，我尊重任何有足够耐心去阅读的人。
An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.
一个细心的读者从优秀的作家那里学到的东西总是比从生活中学到的要多，也要快。
I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year.
我在看剧本，拼命地想工作。我为明年安排了几件事。
The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.
阅读是一种伙伴关系。作者建造了一座房子，而读者却把它当成了一个家。
I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.
我确实借过书，但我必须有一点选择性，因为我的旁注太有罪证了。
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
一个人只有两种学习方法，一种是通过阅读，另一种是通过与更聪明的人交往。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
你写得很轻松，以显示你的教养，但写得容易，读起来难。
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。
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。
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
未读的故事不是故事;木浆上有小黑点。读者，读它，使它活:一个活的东西，一个故事。
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。