Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

  • -- John Watson Foster 科士达

很少有人能充分意识到这种节约在阅读中的重要性,因为阅读几乎完全是选择书籍的第一顺序。为什么,除了一些特殊的原因,在你可能正在阅读最高等级的书的时候,却要读一本劣等的书呢?

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I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

我感到震惊的是,个人信仰和政治议程现在比近现代历史上任何时候都更加紧密地交织在一起。

I couldn't figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time.

我不知道在我的衣服下面穿什么。当时的塑身器太厚了。