A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
阅读
Reading
How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
这样度过一个晚上是多么愉快啊!我声明，毕竟没有什么享受像阅读!一个人对任何事情的厌倦都比厌倦一本书快得多!要是我有了自己的房子，要是没有一间漂亮的书房，那才叫可怜呢。
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。
I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.
我晚上经常难以入睡，所以当我躺在床上时，我就会想故事。这就是我思考的地方。我在阅读的时候也会得到很多想法——有时候读别人的故事会让我想起我自己的故事。
I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.
我希望在我的书中，我能帮助孩子们看到他们的优点，并向他们展示我对他们偶尔可能经历的事情有一些了解。尤其是在棘手的时刻，回到过去逃避事情比向前面对事情更容易。
It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.
就容易有一个男主角,但是我不想让人认为尼基山是我完整的,因为很多人不喜欢我,我不认为他们会对我感兴趣,即使是在虚构的上下文。
At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting fires. It's a long day, and it's a lot of responsibility, and it can be a little bewildering sometimes with the schedule. But, you know, it's a job, and they pay me well to do a job.
在一天结束的时候，我读新闻。我不是在挖沟。我不是在救火。这是漫长的一天，要承担很多责任，有时日程安排会让人有点困惑。但是，你知道，这是一份工作，他们给我高薪让我做这份工作。
As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it.
当我还是个孩子的时候，我真的很喜欢和精灵、妖精和刀剑一起读奇幻小说，有几年我经历了一个阅读无穷无尽的系列的阶段。但最后我完全受够了这些模仿托尔金的作品，因为他们最后都在做同样的事情，没有一丝严谨。
History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... I read it a little as a duty; but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all - it is very tiresome.
历史，真正严肃的历史，我不可能感兴趣……我把它当作一种责任来读;但它告诉我的一切，既没有使我烦恼，也没有使我厌烦。教皇和国王的争吵，每一页都有战争和瘟疫;所有的男人都是那么一无是处，几乎没有一个女人——这是非常令人讨厌的。
Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.
让我们面对现实吧:我们大多数人都没有意识到这一点，但作为榜样，我们辜负了孩子们的期望。最好的榜样是在家里:兄弟、父亲、祖父;母亲,姐妹,祖母。爸爸妈妈们，让你们的孩子看到你们读书是很重要的。不仅仅是书——读报纸也很好。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
养成读书的习惯，就是为自己建造一个避难所，使自己免受生活中几乎所有的不幸。
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
因此，让我们温柔而仁慈地珍惜知识的手段。让我们敢于读、想、说、写。
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。
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。
A word after a word after a word is power.
一个字接一个字就是力量。