Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

  • -- Francis Bacon 弗朗西斯·培根

书有可浅尝者,有可吞食者,少数则须咀嚼消化。

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From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

从火、水、时间的流逝、疏忽的读者和审查人员的手中,我的每一本书都逃过一劫,讲述了它的故事。

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

这是她一生中唯一一次把书本作为走出牢房的门。他们成了她的半个世界。

Good books to not invite unanimity. They invite discord, mayhem, knife fights, blood feuds.

好书不需要大家意见一致。他们招致不和、混乱、刀架、血仇。

Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.

酸的、甜的、苦的、辛辣的,都必须尝一尝。

The is worthy of sweets, who has tasted bitters.

尝过苦的人是配得上甜的。

A book is not completed till it's read.

书不读不完。