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Reading
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
没有人费心去阅读和理解这些书——再说一遍，我不是在虚张声势——但我认为我们的书是伟大的文学作品，用伟大的隐喻描述了现实生活中的恐惧和希望。
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
一本书读起来比我们自己的书更好，而且我们早就知道它了，所以我们知道它的斑点和狗的耳朵的地形，可以追溯到它里面的灰尘，因为我们在喝茶时读过它，吃过抹了黄油的松饼。
A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.
一本书就像一个泵。它不会给你任何东西，除非你先给予它。你用你自己的水启动水泵，你用你自己的力量操纵手柄。你这样做是因为你期望得到的比你付出的多。
I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.
我读公立学校的时候，比我的年级提前了五六年。我很无聊。我和我的一些老师订了一个合同，如果我不提太多的问题，我可以在教室后面工作。
A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints
当一个人打破常规，通过阅读新书、旅行、结交新朋友、培养新爱好和接受新观点来更新自己的生活时，他就是在实践冒险的艺术
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
文学为现实添彩，而不是简单地描述现实。它丰富了日常生活所需和提供的必要能力;在这方面，它灌溉着我们的生活已经变成沙漠的土地。
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.
读书是一种思维敏捷的工作，要求很高，在理想的条件下终于产生一种忘我的境界。这给了阅读体验一种无与伦比的崇高和力量，任何其他形式的沟通。
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
书的好处在于被人阅读。书是由一些符号组成的，这些符号代表着其他符号，而这些符号又代表着事物。如果没有眼睛去阅读，一本书所包含的符号就不会产生任何概念;所以它是哑的。
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
当我们阅读一个故事时，我们会沉浸其中。这本书的封面像一个屋顶和四面墙。接下来要发生的事情将发生在故事的四面墙之内。这是可能的，因为故事的声音使一切成为自己的。
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。
Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?
生活是艰辛的，很多人下班回家都很累。如果他们要花半个小时阅读，他们想要一些娱乐和成就感。这就是我给他们的。这就是我想做的。真的有那么错吗?
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
从真正意义上说，读过优秀文学作品的人比那些不会或不愿读的人活得更长。我们并不是只有一次生命;如果我们能读书，我们就能过上更多的生活，过上我们想过的各种各样的生活。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
读书之于心灵，犹如运动之于身体。
We live and breathe words.
我们活着，呼吸着语言。
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。
Literature is news that stays news.
文学是保持新闻的新闻。
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。
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
通过阅读圣经，我是如此的新生，所有的自然似乎在我周围和我更新。天空似乎一片纯净，一片湛蓝，树木一片翠绿。整个世界充满了上帝的荣耀，我感到脚下有火焰和音乐。