A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
知识
Knowledge
知识从好奇开始,在阅读、思考和实践中积累。这里的语句围绕求知与理解展开,适合结合英文关键词和中文译文一起阅读。
Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.
如果思想自由消亡,文学就注定要消亡。
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。
What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
如果朋友的书不能借,那又有什么用呢?
Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.
人生苦短,不要把时间浪费在坏书上。
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
我们丢失的所有知识在哪里?
In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.
在图书馆里,没有空的书架能长久保持空着。
I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.
我是我笔下的人物。我的钢笔是我最好的。
I had always imagined paradise as a kind of library.
我一直把天堂想象成一种图书馆。
Every writer has to find their own way into writing.
每个作家都必须找到自己的写作方法。
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
一个不写作的作家是一个追求疯狂的怪物。
As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.
作为一个物种,我们总是渴望新的知识。
For me, writing something down was the only road out.
对我来说,写下一些东西是唯一的出路。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
对真理的探索,是对真理的爱的追求,对真理的认识,是对真理的存在,对真理的信仰,是对真理的享受,是人类本性至高无上的美德。
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
先读最好的书,否则你可能根本没有机会去读它们。
There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere.
没有合适的时间和地点读书。当阅读的心情来临时,一个人可以在任何地方阅读。
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
书籍对我的重要性和影响是不断积累的:这是我听过和读过很多关于有趣的人和地方的故事的结果。
Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
科幻小说中所有重要的东西都首先出现在杂志上。它是新作家和新思想的试验场。
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
一个普通人可以用两千本书把自己包围起来,这样,他在这个世界上就至少有了一个可以快乐的地方。