Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

  • -- Erik Larson 埃里克·拉森

读书对我来说是件很私人的事。我更愿意给某人一张书店的礼券,让他/她自己选书。

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Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

那些我们熟悉但并不拥有的旧书横过我们的道路,邀请它们自己过来。新书试图用诱人的标题和诱人的封面每天引诱我们。

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

责任是人们最害怕的事情。然而,正是这个世界上的一件事发展了我们,给了我们男人或女人的纤维。

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

要对公共利益感兴趣,我们就必须不感兴趣,也就是说,不感兴趣的是与我们个人利益息息相关的东西。

A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.

生活教练在你的余生中所做的事情,就像私人教练在你的健康和健身中所做的一样。

Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.

读译诗就像隔着面纱亲吻一个女人。

You are far too smart to be the only thing standing in your way.

你太聪明了,不会成为唯一阻碍你的人。