A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
阅读
Reading
We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.
我们这些爱读书的人知道，阅读不同于其他任何事情，它不仅对你有好处，而且充满乐趣。
Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.
书是我们之间传递的情书(或道歉信)，在我们的言语之外增加了一层对话。
Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.
幸运的是，我总是带着一本书去旅行，以防我不得不排队等圣诞老人，或者其他一些不便。
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
最后，由于睡得那么少，读得那么多，他的脑子干瘪了，完全失去了理智。
The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.
当一个人学会阅读的东西对他的生活没有任何重要意义时，他的阅读能力就会贬值。
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
书籍就像胶片上的显影液。也就是说，他们把你不知道你知道的东西带入意识。
A woman that is patient has the ability to endure provocation, pain, annoyance etc, with much calm and strength.
一个有耐心的女人有能力忍受挑衅、痛苦、烦恼等，而且非常平静和坚强。
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
没有读过的书对任何人都没有好处。故事发生在读者的脑海中，而不是印在纸上的符号之间。
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
亚细亚信条对我来说是轻松易懂的阅读，与现在许多被认为是科学的东西相比。
If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
如果我们致力于阅读以增加我们的知识，只有上帝才能限制我们在这个世界上走多远。
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
科幻电影与科学无关。它们是关于灾难的，这是最古老的艺术主题之一。
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
拿破仑说的每一句话，他写的每一行字，都值得一读，因为这就是法兰西。
KEEP EXPLORING
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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。
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。
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。
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
优秀的、令人钦佩的读者并不认同书中的男孩或女孩，而是认同构思和创作那本书的人。
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。
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。