chinese reading - The Pleasure of Reading读书的乐趣

培根曾在《论读书》中写道：“读书可以怡情，可以博采，可以长才。其怡情也最见于独处和幽居之时；其博采也最见于高谈阔论之时；其长才也最见于处世判事之际。”今天让我们一起领略读书的乐趣吧。

读书的乐趣

dúshū de lèqù

 

The Pleasure of Reading

 

历代的智慧，几个世纪以来人类一直籍以为乐的故事，所有这些都可以从书中方便而又便宜的获得。但是我必须懂得如何来利用这份宝藏，懂得如何才能使它对我们最为有益。世界上最为不幸的人，也就是那些从未体验过读好书之乐趣的人吧。

 

lìdài de zhìhuì，jǐɡè shìjì yǐlái rénlèi yìzhí  jíyǐ wèilè de ɡùshi，suǒyǒu zhèxiē dōu kěyǐ cónɡ shūzhōnɡ fānɡbiàn éryòu piányi de huòdé。dànshì wò bìxū dǒnɡde rúhé lái lìyònɡ zhèfèn bǎozànɡ，dǒnɡde rúhé cáinénɡ shǐ tā duì wǒmén zuìwéi yǒuyì。shìjiè shànɡ zuìwéi búxìnɡ de rén，yějiùshì nàxiē cónɡwèi tǐyàn ɡuò dú hǎoshū zhī lèqù de rèn bɑ。

 

All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply available to all of us within the covers of books but we must know how to avail ourselves of this treasure and how get the most value from it. The unfortunate people in the world are those who have never discoverd how satisfying it is to read good books.

 

我对人最为感兴趣，喜欢结识他们，喜欢了解他们。我认识的一些非凡之人，首先存在于作者的像想象之中，然后表现在作品的字里行间，最后在我的想象中重新显现。我在书中找到了新的朋友，新的社会，还有新的语言。

 

wò duì rén zuìwéi ɡǎn xìnɡqù，xǐhuān jiéshí tāmen，xǐhuān liǎojiě tāmen。wò rènshi de yìxiē fēifán zhīrén，shǒuxiān cúnzàiyú zuòzhě de xiǎnɡxiànɡ zhīzhōnɡ，ránhòu biǎoxiànzài zuòpǐn de zìlǐ-hánɡjiān，zuìhòu zài wǒde xiǎnɡxiànɡzhōnɡ chónɡxīn xiǎnxiàn。wò zài shūzhōnɡ zhǎodàole xīnde pénɡyǒu，xīnde shèhuì，háiyǒu xīnde yǔyán。

 

I am most interested in people, in meeting them and finding out about them. Some of the remarkable people I've met existed only in writer's imagination, then the pages of his book, and then again, in my imagination. I have found in books new friends, new society, and new words.

 

如果说我对人感兴趣的话，别人感兴趣的就是事。书中的人形形色色，从历史上第一个伟人一直到科幻小说中200年后的超人。书中的事也无奇不有，从福尔摩斯里的精彩案情，到各种科学发现，再到如何让孩子懂得礼貌。

 

rúɡuǒshuō wò duì rèn ɡǎn xìnɡqù dehuà，biérén ɡǎn xìnɡqù de jiùshì shì。shūzhōnɡ de rén xínɡxínɡ-sèsè，cónɡ lìshǐ shànɡ dì-yīɡe wěirén yìzhídào kēhuàn xiǎoshuō zhōnɡ 200nián hòu de chāorén。shūzhōnɡ sān shì yě wúqí-bùyǒu，cónɡ fúěrmósī lǐ de jīnɡcǎi ànqínɡ，dào ɡèzhǒnɡ kēxué fāxiàn，zàidào rúhé rànɡ háizi dǒnɡde lǐmào。

 

If I am interested in people, others are interested not so much in who as in now. Who in books includes everybody from science-fiction superman two hundreds years in the future all the way back to the first figure in history. How covers everything from the ingenious explanations of Sherlock Holmes to the discoveries of science and the way of teaching manners to children.