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.

  • -- C. S. Lewis C.S.刘易斯

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。

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During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

在伦敦逗留期间,我第一次与一些有机化学家建立了个人联系,我从文献中了解并欣赏他们的工作。我发现他们非常和蔼可亲,乐于助人。

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.

不幸的是,现实是,出于政治或其他原因,有必要执行反歧视法,或至少有必要这么做。

Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.

通常当我读一些东西的时候,首先我要找故事,然后当我再读的时候,我要检查每一个部分,看看是不是每个场景都是必要的。

I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

我确实说过,在团体中,权威和纯洁是维持秩序所必需的,但我永远不会给他们一个全面的背书。

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

我不相信我的书里有这种魔力。但是我相信当你读一本好书的时候,一些非常神奇的事情会发生。

Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading.

收集书籍是一项全职工作,如果一个人把时间花在像阅读这样无聊的事情上,他不会走得太远。

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

好的儿童文学不仅吸引成人中的儿童,而且吸引儿童中的成人。

The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own.

我们最后一次看到弗莱迪是在第二部分,弗莱迪自己出去了。

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

我只读传记、玄学和心理学。我可以编出我自己的小说。

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

读书的农民是等待中的王子。