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趣味双语（二）
作者：林 林
S.W.S Gilbert:A book is a friend that never betrays.
库柏：书籍经常是护身符和咒语。
Cowper:Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
毛姆：养成读书的习惯，就给你自己建造了一座逃避人生几乎所有不幸的避难所。
W.S.Maugham:To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
都德：书籍是最好的朋友。在生活中遇到任何困难，都可以向它求助，它们永远不会弃你而去。
A.Daudet:Books are the best friends.No matter what difficulties you meet with in life,you can turn to them for help and they will never discard you.
利希藤贝格：书是一面镜子，如果一只驴子向里面窥视，你不可能指望正往外看的是圣徒。
George Lichtenbery:A book is a mirror ,if an ass peers into it,you can’t expect an apostle to look out.
多蒂：你从父母那里学会爱，学会笑，学会走路，可是打开一本书，你会发现你有了翅膀。
S.Dody:From your parents you lean love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other.But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
哈曼：一幢没有书的房子，犹如一个没有窗户的房间。
Horace Mam: A house without books is like a room without windows.
伯克：阅读不思考犹如吃饭不消化。
Edmuncl Burke: Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
爱默生：不必告诉我你曾经读过什么书，我可以从你的言谈中察知。不必告诉我你同什么人交往，我可以从你的举止中看出。
Emerson: Do not tell me the books you have read，let me glean it from your conversation .Do not tell me of the people you associate with，let me observe it by your manners.
培根：读书时不可存心诘难作者，不可尽信书中之言，亦不可断章取义，而应推敲细思。
Francis Bacon: Read not to contradict and confute,not to believe and take for granted,nor to find talk and discourse,let to weigh and consider.
培根：有些书可浅尝辄止，有些书可囫囵吞枣，但有少量书需细细咀嚼，慢慢消化；换言之，有些书可只读其章节，有些书则可大致浏览，有少量书则需通篇细读并认真领悟。
Francis Bacon:Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,and some few to be chewed and disgested; that is some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
高尔基：读书越多，精神就越健壮勇敢。
Goethe:The more you read,the more healthy and brave your spirit will be.
鲁迅：只看一个人的著作，结果是不大好的；你就得不到多方面的优点。必须如蜜蜂一样，采过许多花，这才能酿出蜜来，倘若盯在一处，所得就非常有限、枯燥了。
Lu Xun: It is not good only to read one person’s works and you can’t get advantages of multiaspects, just like a bee that gathers many flows to make honey. It is very limited and boring if stay on one flower.
柯里尔：书籍是青年人的指南，老年人的娱乐。孤寂时，书籍给我们力量，使我们摆脱精神负担。
Jeremy Collier: Books are a guide in youth and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude ,and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
迪米内特：读书对大多数人而言是高尚的名称掩盖下消磨时间的可耻方式。
Ernest Dimnet: Reading, to most people, means an as hamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.
梭罗：有多少人由一本书的阅读而开始其人生的新时代呀！
Thoreau: How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!
爱默生：在最高层的文明里，书乃是最高层次的乐趣。
R.W.Emerson: In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.