你低头读书的样子好美(中英)

你低头读书的样子好美
A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. 书，是你可以握在手中的梦想
―Neil Gaiman
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it,
you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours
and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.
That doesn't happen much, though.
一本书让我真正感到崩溃的时候是
当我读完它时
我真心希望这位作者是我极要好的朋友
如果需要我可以随时给他打电话
问题是这不太可能发生
―J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily,
often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.
阅读是唯一能让我们不由自主地
毫无防备地将自己带入到另一个人的身体声音和灵魂的方式
—Joyce Carol Oates
To learn to read is to light a fire;
every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
读书仿若点火
每一个音节都是一个火花
—Victor Hugo
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die."
书籍帮助我们认识自己教我们做人
告诉我们什么是团结友爱
指引我们应该如何生活
以及如何老去—Anne Lamott
"When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young."
回望过去
我再次被文学那足以改变个人命运的力量感动
如果今天我仍是个年轻人
正努力在这个世界上寻找自我
我仍会选择阅读这一方式
一如当年的我
—Maya Angelou
A book, too, can be a star,
a living fire to lighten the darkness,
leading out into the expanding universe.
一本书就像一颗星辰
像一把燃烧的火
将那黑夜点亮
指引我们去向那广阔的宇宙
—Madeleine L’Engle
We read to know that we are not alone.
读书方知不寂寞。

— C.S. Lewis
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.
读书是逃亡，也是归来
读书是谷，也是福
—Nora Ephron
What is reading but silent conversation?
阅读是无声的对话。

—Walter Savage Landor
It was books that taught me that
the things that tormented me most
were the very things that connected me
with all the people who were alive,
or who had ever been alive.
读书教会我
那些最痛苦的经历
恰恰将我与世人连接
也让我与故人相逢
—James Baldwin
Until I feared I would lose it,
I never loved to read.
One does not love breathing.
在我开始担心有天会失去读书的权利之前我从不觉得自己热爱读书
道理就像
人们不会热爱呼吸一样
―Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
很多事，做久了都会厌倦
惟读书不会
当我有了自己的房子
若没有一间像样的书房
将使我感到痛苦
―Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
书是一面镜子
当你读书时
看到的是你自己
―Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
曾经我读到一本书
它改变了我的一生
―Orhan Pamuk, The New Life
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. 阅读是一张带你遨游世界的折价票。

—Mary Schmich
It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book.
如果读书能在某一刻
让你忘记时间抛却烦恼
即使只是短暂的一刻
也是一种莫大的幸福
―Nella Last
You know you’ve read a good book
when you turn the last page
and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
当你读到最后一页
仿若将要失去一位朋友时
就知道这是一本好书了
—Paul Sweeney
Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
文字就像X射线
用得好它会穿透任何事物
当你阅读时它便穿透了你
―Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Reading takes us away from home,
but more important,
it finds homes for us everywhere.
读书助我神游
更甚者
不论身在何地
读书都能引我回家
—Hazel Rochman
Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me,
I have a place I can go and be happy.
无论身处何地
只要有书在手
我就能无处不在
无往不乐
—J.K. Rowling。