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。
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
的经典。这是一本人们赞美却不读的书。
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。
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
如果你死后不会被遗忘,要么写一些值得读的东西,要么做一些值得写的事情。
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。
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
不管你认为自己有多忙,你都必须找时间读书,否则你就会陷入自己选择的无知之中。
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
今天是读者,明天是领导者。