Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives.

  • -- Anna Quindlen 安娜·昆德兰

阅读不仅仅是一种智力上的追求,更是一种情感和精神上的追求。它点燃了自我飓风之灯中的蜡烛;这就是它存活下来的原因。

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That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.

更专制的组织能够生存下来并取得胜利,这一点通常没有引起注意,因为人们关注的是组织的目标,这些目标是多种多样的,而不是它们的结构,因为这些结构很相似。

We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.

我们在削减孩子们喜欢的东西——音乐、艺术和体育课;那些让我留在学校的东西。这个国家不能没有你们这些孩子。都是关于你们这些孩子的。

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

阅读使我们成为移民。它把我们带离了家,但更重要的是,它为我们找到了无处不在的家。

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

如果时间是宝贵的,没有一本书不能通过反复阅读而有所提高,那么这本书就根本不值得一读。

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

除非我被书包围,否则我无法入睡。

We profit little by books we do not enjoy.

我们从不喜欢的书中获益甚少。