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Reading
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
我到处寻找休息的地方，除了一个人坐在角落里拿着一本小书外，什么也没有找到。
What’s said in silence is best viewed in darkness. I learned that while reading a bowl of Alphabet Soup.
沉默中说的话，在黑暗中才能看得清。我是在看一碗字母汤的时候学会的。
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
现存的十分之九的书都是胡言乱语，而聪明的书则是对那些胡言乱语的驳斥。
I’m always reading books—as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I’ll always be in supply.
我总是在读书——有多少就有多少。我对他们实行定量配给，这样我就永远有供应。
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
是的，阅读是件大事。书是一件大事。但最引人注目的是报纸。
Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.
阅读是感知的翻译。字母表的惰性符号在人们的头脑中变成了鲜活的意义。
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
她博览众书的名声就像史诗中那位多云的女神的信封一样笼罩着她。
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
一个只有孩子才能欣赏的儿童故事，根本不是一个好的儿童故事。
There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.
世界上有太多的书不能在一个人的一生中读完;你必须在某个地方划清界限。
I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
我读书，我亲近大自然，就像蜜蜂亲近花朵一样，我要的是一种能酿出属于我自己的蜂蜜的花蜜。
The unification of worlds is an author's priority, as one of them surely resides forbidden to the public.
世界的统一是作者的首要任务，因为其中一个世界肯定是禁止公众进入的。
In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of this is me!
换句话说，这是一本你用怀疑的呼喊“这是我!”
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
我第一次读到一本优秀的作品，对我来说就像交了一个新朋友;当我读一本我以前读过的书时，它就像一本旧书的相遇。
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
我发现电视很有教育意义。每次有人打开电视，我就去另一个房间看书。
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。
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
我们成为什么样的人，取决于我们在所有教授教完我们之后读了什么书。最伟大的大学是一所藏书的大学。
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。
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
三思而后行。三思而后行。