趣味雙語（二）

吉爾伯特：書是永不背叛的朋友。

S.W.S Gilbert:A book is a friend that never betrays.

庫柏：書籍經常是護身符和咒語。

Cowper:Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

毛姆：養成讀書的習慣，就給你自己建造了一座逃避人生幾乎所有不幸的避難所。

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：書籍是最好的朋友。在生活中遇到任何困難，都可以向它求助，它們永遠不會棄你而去。

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.

利希藤貝格：書是一面鏡子，如果一只驢子向里面窺視，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：你從父母那里學會愛，學會笑，學會走路，可是打開一本書，你會發現你有了翅膀。

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：一幢沒有書的房子，猶如一個沒有窗戶的房間。

Horace Mam: A house without books is like a room without windows.

伯克：閱讀不思考猶如吃飯不消化。

Edmuncl Burke: Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

愛默生：不必告訴我你曾經讀過什么書，我可以從你的言談中察知。不必告訴我你同什么人交往，我可以從你的舉止中看出。

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：讀書時不可存心詰難作者，不可盡信書中之言，亦不可斷章取義，而應推敲細思。

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：有些書可淺嘗輒止，有些書可囫圇吞棗，但有少量書需細細咀嚼，慢慢消化；換言之，有些書可只讀其章節，有些書則可大致瀏覽，有少量書則需通篇細讀并認真領悟。

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.

高爾基：讀書越多，精神就越健壯勇敢。

Goethe:The more you read，the more healthy and brave your spirit will be.

魯迅：只看一個人的著作，結果是不大好的；你就得不到多方面的優點。必須如蜜蜂一樣，采過許多花，這才能釀出蜜來，倘若盯在一處，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.

柯里爾：書籍是青年人的指南，老年人的娛樂。孤寂時，書籍給我們力量，使我們擺脫精神負擔。

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.

迪米內特：讀書對大多數人而言是高尚的名稱掩蓋下消磨時間的可恥方式。

Ernest Dimnet: Reading， to most people， means an as hamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.

梭羅：有多少人由一本書的閱讀而開始其人生的新時代呀！

Thoreau: How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!

愛默生：在最高層的文明里，書乃是最高層次的樂趣。

R.W.Emerson: In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.