What really knocks me out is a book that,

when you're all done reading it,

you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours

and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.

That doesn't happen much, though.

一本書讓我真正感到崩潰的時候是

當我讀完它時

我真心希望這位作者是我極要好的朋友

如果需要 我可以隨時給他打電話

問題是 這不太可能發(fā)生

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily,

often helplessly, into another’s skin,

another’s voice, another’s soul.

閱讀是唯一能讓我們不由自主地

毫無防備地將自己帶入到另一個人的身體

聲音和靈魂的方式

To learn to read is to light a fire;

every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

讀書仿若點火

每一個音節(jié)都是一個火花

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.'

書籍幫助我們認識自己 教我們做人

告訴我們什么是團結友愛

指引我們應該如何生活

以及如何老去

'When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.'

回望過去

我再次被文學那足以改變個人命運的力量感動

如果今天我仍是個年輕人

正努力在這個世界上尋找自我

我仍會選擇閱讀這一方式

一如當年的我

A book, too, can be a star,

a living fire to lighten the darkness,

leading out into the expanding universe.

一本書就像一顆星辰

像一把燃燒的火

將那黑夜點亮

指引我們去向那廣闊的宇宙

We read to know that we are not alone.

讀書方知不寂寞。

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

讀書是逃亡，也是歸來

讀書是谷，也是福

What is reading but silent conversation?

閱讀是無聲的對話。

It was books that taught me that

the things that tormented me most

were the very things that connected me

with all the people who were alive,

or who had ever been alive.

讀書教會我

那些最痛苦的經(jīng)歷

恰恰將我與世人連接

也讓我與故人相逢

Until I feared I would lose it,

I never loved to read.

One does not love breathing.

在我開始擔心有天會失去讀書的權利之前

我從不覺得自己熱愛讀書

道理就像

人們不會熱愛呼吸一樣

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.

很多事，做久了都會厭倦

惟讀書不會

當我有了自己的房子

若沒有一間像樣的書房

將使我感到痛苦

Books are mirrors:

you only see in them what you already have inside you.

書是一面鏡子

當你讀書時

看到的是你自己

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

曾經(jīng)我讀到一本書

它改變了我的一生

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

閱讀是一張帶你遨游世界的折價票。

It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book.

如果讀書能在某一刻

讓你忘記時間 拋卻煩惱

即使只是短暫的一刻

也是一種莫大的幸福

You know you’ve read a good book

when you turn the last page

and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

當你讀到最后一頁

仿若將要失去一位朋友時

就知道這是一本好書了

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

文字就像X射線

用得好 它會穿透任何事物

當你閱讀時 它便穿透了你

Reading takes us away from home,

but more important,

it finds homes for us everywhere.

讀書助我神游

更甚者

不論身在何地

讀書都能引我回家

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me,

I have a place I can go and be happy.

無論身處何地

只要有書在手

我就能無處不在

無往不樂