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空明苑 2017-04-27

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To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.” - A C Grayling, Financial Times (in a review of A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel)

阅读就是飞翔：翱翔到一个制高点，由此可俯瞰广大的疆域，包括历史、人类的多样性、观念、共享的体验以及多种探究的成果。----A C Grayling，1949年生，英国哲学家

“A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.” - Abraham Lincoln

有阅读的能力和品味，就能了解别人已经发现的任何东西。----美国总统林肯

“To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.” - Andre Gide

对我来说，阅读一位作家的作品不仅是了解他说了什么，而且是与他一起出发、作伴旅行的过程。----法国作家纪德

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.” - Angela Carter

读一本书就仿佛你在改写此书。读一本小说或其他任何书的时候，你将自己对世界的全部体验都带入了。你带入了自己的历史，是用自己的方式在阅读。----Angela Carter（1940-1992），英国女作家

“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.” - Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

你让我认识一位读过一千本书的人，就让我结识了一位有趣的伴侣。你让我认识一个大概只读过三本书的人，就简直给我树了一个危险的敌人。----安妮·赖斯，女，1941年生，美国恐怖小说与情欲书写的代表作家

“The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.” - Anthony Trollope

阅读的习惯是唯一一种纯粹的享受；当所有其他愉悦都衰退时，阅读之愉悦仍存在。----Anthony Trollope（1815-1882），英国小说家

“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of

escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to

escape.” - Arthur Christopher Benson

世上最棒的所有故事只不过是现实中的一个故事----逃避的故事。如何

逃避，是我们所有人、所有时代都感兴趣的唯一的事情。

----Arthur Christopher Benson（1862-1925），英国散文家、诗人、作家

“Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.”

- Arthur Helps

有时，阅读是我们逃避思考的一种聪明的借口。