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阅读
Reading
It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.
一个可以放进口袋里的设备可以装下成千上万本书，这是很了不起的。但满屋子的书是一种完全不同的非凡之处。
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives.
阅读不仅仅是一种智力上的追求，更是一种情感和精神上的追求。它点燃了自我飓风之灯中的蜡烛;这就是它存活下来的原因。
So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.
所以一个作家写了很多书。在每一本书中，他都有意提出几个紧迫而生动的观点，随着书的形式变得更加坚实，他牺牲了其中的许多观点。
No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.
不管你是谁，不管你住在哪里，不管有多少人追着你，你不读的东西往往和你读的东西一样重要。
I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.
我对长角牛的看法不像对我所拥有的两支球队那样深刻，但作为一名球迷和体育版的读者，我看好长角牛。
When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.
当你给孩子读书的时候，当你把一本书放在孩子手里的时候，你就给孩子带来了关于生命的无限变化的消息。你是一个觉醒者。
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
如果我们想知道人类天才的力量，我们应该读莎士比亚。如果我们希望看到人类学习的重要性，我们可以研究他的评论家。
To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.
关心文字，与文字有利害关系，相信书籍的力量——这压倒了其他一切，与之相比，一个人的生命变得非常渺小。
The spirits of the brain are directly connected to the testicles. This is why men who weary their imagination in books are less suitable for procreative functions…
大脑的精神直接与睾丸相连。这就是为什么那些厌倦了书本想象的人不太适合生育的原因。
He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.
他开始以一种我能认出来的方式看着我:那是我看一本新书的方式，一本我以前从未读过的书，一本让我惊讶不已的书。
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
每一个懂得读书的人都有能力使自己变得伟大，使自己的生活方式多样化，使自己的生活充实、有意义、有趣。
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.
桂冠诗人有其独特的职责。我计划在国会图书馆举办一系列的阅读活动，并为图书管理员提供建议。剩下的就是我如何推广诗歌。
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。
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
三思而后行。三思而后行。
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
如果一个人不能一次又一次地享受读书的乐趣，那么读书就毫无用处。
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
那些被世界称为不道德的书，是那些让世界感到羞耻的书。
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。
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
学习读书就是点燃一团火;每一个拼出来的音节都是火花。