A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
阅读
Reading
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
最大的礼物是对阅读的热情。它很便宜，它能安慰人，它能分散注意力，它能让人兴奋，它能让你了解世界，获得广泛的体验。这是一种道德启示。
Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.
语言不是枯燥的，而是能让你的大脑嗡嗡作响的东西。如果你读了这些书，并让自己感受到其中的魔力，无论发生了什么，你都可以生活在没有痛苦、没有希望的世界里。
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。
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
传统的好书通常是一本坏书，是我们已知的一个放松的沐浴。真正的好书无疑是一种创新的创造行为，在其中，我们，读者，成为同谋者。
In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.
就人们对我的看法而言，它可以分为两类:一类是通过阅读报纸认识我的人，另一类是通过阅读我的书认识我的人。
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
教一个孩子一种乐器，而不先给他准备训练，也不培养他唱歌、读书、听写和演奏的最高水平，这是建立在沙上的。
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
书能真正改变我们的生活:读过书的人的生活，写过书的人的生活。读者和作家都发现了他们从未了解过的世界和自己。
Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.
朗读提词器是一项容易做得还过得去的技巧，也是一项很难做好的技巧。我在那方面还有改进的余地。我说话还是太快了，我想让自己慢下来。
Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.
这些死去的作家，当他们的书被阅读时，他们能感觉到吗?黑暗中会不会出现一丝光亮?他们的灵魂是否被另一个读他们作品的心灵的触碰所触动?我希望如此。
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
他读了很多书，如果有人想到他的长寿的话;但他的沉思远远超过了阅读。他常说，如果他读的书和别人一样多，他就不会比别人知道得更多。
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed...
我们是科技时代的孩子。我们已经找到了简化日常工作的方法。印刷不再是复制书籍的唯一方式。然而，阅读它们并没有改变……
I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
我知道书似乎是一个人创造出来的终极作品，但事实并非如此。每一本书的阅读都是读者和作者之间的合作，他们共同创作故事。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
当我发现故事书是由人写的，书并不是自然奇观，而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候，我感到既震惊又失望。
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
我从来不想和一个写得比读得多的人交谈。
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。
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
文学是一种人类活动，它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。
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。
When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
当读者进入一本诗集，他或她进入一个世界，在那里梦想把过去变成适用于现在的知识，在那里幻想把现在塑造成未来的非凡可能性。