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1、The Delight of BooksThe Delight of Books Books are to mankind what memory is to the individual. 书籍之于人类犹如记忆之于个人。 They contain the history of our race, the discoveries we have made, the accumulated knowledge and experience of ages; 它们记载了我们人类的历史和迄今的发现，还有各个时代积累下来的知识和经验； they picture for us the marvels a
2、nd beauties of nature, help us in our difficulties, comfort us in sorrow and in suffering, change hours of weariness into moments of delight, store our minds with ideas, fill them with food and happy thoughts, and lift us out of and above ourselves. 它们向我们描述出自然界的奇妙和美丽。但我们身处困境时，它们给我们帮助；当我们受难哀伤时，它们给我们以
3、慰藉；当我们困倦疲倦时，它们让我们快乐起来。书籍还能充实我们的头脑，使其充满美好，快乐的思想，帮助我们走出和超越自我。 Many of those who have had, as we say, all that this world can give, have yet told us they owed much of their purest happiness to books. 恰如常人所言，许多人的人生已了无遗憾；然而他们却告诉我们，他们真正的快乐主要来自书籍。 Macaulay had wealth and fame, rank and power, and yet he te
4、lls us in his biography that he owed the happiest hours of his life to books. 麦考利享有财富、名声、地位和权利，而他在自传中却告诉我们，他一生中最幸福的时刻是从书本中获得的。 He says, If any one would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces and gardens and fine dinners, and wines and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of
5、 servants, on condition that I should not read books, I would not be a king; I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading. 如果有人以不读书为条件，使我成为有史以来最伟大的国王，拥有众多的宫殿、花园，享用佳肴、美酒，乘豪华的马车，着华丽的服饰，还有成百上千的仆人供我驱使，我也还是会拒绝。我宁愿做一个住在一间堆满书的阁楼里的穷人，也不愿做一个不爱读书的国王。 Preci
6、ous and priceless are the blessings which the books scatter around our daily paths. 书籍给我们日常生活轨迹中播种的快乐是珍贵无价的。 We walk in imagination with the noblest spirits through the most sublime and enchanting regions. 我们能够在想象中与最高贵的人们同行，走过极乐的仙境。 Without stirring from our firesides we may roam to the most remote
7、regions of the earth, or soar into realms where Spensers shapes of unearthly beauty flock to meet us, where Miltons angels peal in our ears the choral hymns of Paradise. 足不出户，坐在炉火边，我们就能倘佯在地球上最遥远的地方，或者翱翔在斯宾塞和弥尔顿的王国；在那儿，斯宾塞妙笔下超凡脱俗的仙女蜂拥而至，迎接我们的到来；在那儿，弥尔顿描摹的天使在我们的耳边大声地合唱着天堂赞歌。 Science, art, literature, philosophy, -all that man has thought, all that man has done, -the experience that has been bought with the sufferings of a hundred generations, -all are garnered up for us in the world of books. 科学、艺术、文学和哲学-人类所有的思想、所有的历史遗迹、一代又一代人用痛苦所换取的经验的结晶-所有这一切蕴藏于书籍之中。
