英語摘抄好句好段閱讀的名著摘抄

『壹』 英語名著經典句子

All human wisdom is summed up in two words ?C wait and hope.
人類所有的智慧可以歸結為兩個詞 — 等待和希望。—— Alexandre Dumas Pére大仲馬（法國作家）
It is not enough to be instrious, so are the ants. What are you instrious for?
光勤勞是不夠的，螞蟻也是勤勞的。要看你為什麼而勤勞。—— H. D. Thoreau梭羅
You have to believe in yourself. That』s the secret of success.
人必須相信自己，這是成功的秘訣。—— charles Chaplin卓別林
Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.
沒有什麼比獨立自由更可寶貴的了。—— [越南] Ho Chi Minh胡志明
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
我不緬懷過去的歷史，而致力於未來的夢想。—— T. Jefferson 傑弗遜（美國第3任總統）

《雙城記》英國作家查爾斯·狄更斯
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
我愛你，不是因為你是一個怎樣的人，而是因為我喜歡與你在一起時的感覺。

No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won『t make you cry.
沒有人值得你流淚，值得讓你這么做的人不會讓你哭泣。
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can『t have them.
失去某人，最糟糕的莫過於，他近在身旁，卻猶如遠在天邊。

Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
縱然傷心，也不要愁眉不展，因為你不知是誰會愛上你的笑容。

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
對於世界而言，你是一個人；但是對於某個人，你是他的整個世界。

Don『t waste your time on a man/woman, who isn『t willing to waste their time on you.
不要為那些不願在你身上花費時間的人而浪費你的時間。

Just because someone doesn『t love you the way you want them to, doesn『t mean they don『t love you with all they have.
愛你的人如果沒有按你所希望的方式來愛你，那並不代表他們沒有全心全意地愛你。

Don『t try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.
不要著急，最好的總會在最不經意的時候出現。

Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting theright one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how tobe grateful.
在遇到夢中人之前，上天也許會安排我們先遇到別的人；在我們終於遇見心儀的人時，便應當心存感激。

Don『t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
不要因為結束而哭泣，微笑吧，為你的曾經擁有。

If you love someone， let it be and set him／her free，if he／she comes back to you，it"s meant to be.
如果你愛一個人，隨遇而安，讓他／她自由的飛，如果最後他／她還是回到你身邊，那就是命中註定的。

Love means never having to say you』re sorry.
愛就是永遠不必說對不起。（《愛情故事》）
I'd found my best love .But i didn't treasure her.I felt regretful after that,It's the ultimate pain in the world!Just cut my throat ,Pleasee don't hesitate!If god can give me a chance.I'll tell her three words:"i love you"!If god wanna give me a time limit.I'll say this love will last 10 thousand years!
曾經有一份真誠的愛情放在我面前，我沒有珍惜，等我失去的時候我才後悔莫及，人世間最痛苦的事莫過於此。你的劍在我的咽喉上割下去吧！不用再猶豫了！如果上天能夠給我一個再來一次的機會，我會對那個女孩子說三個字：我愛你。如果非要在這份愛上加上一個期限，我希望是一萬年！（大話西遊）

To be or not to be, that』s a question.-"Hamlet"生存還是死亡，這是一個問題。《哈姆雷特》
We become the most familiar strangers.
我們變成了世上最熟悉的陌生人。－－－Gone with the wind《亂世佳人》
love waking up in the morning and not knowing what』s going to happen, or who I』m going to meet, where I』m going to wind up.(Titanic)
我喜歡早上起來時一切都是未知的,不知會遇見什麼人,會有什麼樣的結局。 《泰坦尼克號》
WILLIAM wallace："Fight, and you may die. run, and you'll live at least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now. Would you be willing to trade? All the days from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our Freedom! Freedom——
" 威廉華萊士："是啊，如果戰斗，可能會死。如果逃跑，至少還能活。年復一年，直到壽終正寢。你們！願不願意用這么多苟活的日子去換一個機會，就一個機會！那就是回來，告訴敵人，他們也許能奪走我們的生命，但是，他們永遠奪不走我們的自由！" "我們的自由！！ 《勇敢的心》
一《Shawshank Redemption肖申克的救贖》
1.You know some birds are not meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright.
你知道，有些鳥兒是註定不會被關在牢籠里的，它們的每一片羽毛都閃耀著自由的光輝。

2.There is something inside ,that they can't get to , that they can't touch. That's yours.
那是一種內在的東西, 他們到達不了,也無法觸及的,那是你的。

3.Hope is a good thing and maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.
希望是一個好東西,也許是最好的,好東西是不會消亡的。

二《Forrest Gump 阿甘正傳》
1.Life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.
生命就像一盒巧克力，結果往往出人意料。

2.Stupid is as stupid does.
蠢人做蠢事(傻人有傻福)。

3.Miracles happen every day.
奇跡每天都在發生。

4.Jenny and I was like peas and carrots.
我和珍妮形影不離。

5.Have you given any thought to your future?
你有沒有為將來打算過呢。

6． You just stay away from me please.
求你離開我。

7． If you are ever in trouble, don't try to be brave, just run, just run away.
你若遇上麻煩，不要逞強，你就跑，遠遠跑開。

8． It made me look like a ck in water.
它讓我如魚得水。

9． Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do.
死亡是生命的一部分，是我們註定要做的一件事。

10． I was messed up for a long time.
這些年我一塌糊塗。

11． I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidentally―like on a breeze.
我不懂我們是否有著各自的命運，還是只是到處隨風飄盪。

『貳』 英語名著簡愛的好句，好段落。

1，Life is too short, can not be used vengeful build hate生命太短促，不能用來記仇蓄恨

2，Do you think,because I am poor,obscure,plain,and littele,I am soulless and heartless?You think wrong!-I have as much soul as you-and full as much heart!難道就因為我一貧如洗，默默無聞，長相平庸，個子瘦小，就沒有靈魂，沒有心腸了——你想錯了，我的心靈跟你一樣豐富，我的心胸一樣充實！

3，I think the bird flies but the sea birds fly, is that no courage of the sea, years later I discovered, not the bird flies past, but not the other side of the sea, and had no waiting我以為小鳥飛不過滄海，是以為小鳥沒有飛過滄海的勇氣，十年以後我才發現，不是小鳥飛不過去，而是滄海的那一頭，早已沒有了等待

4，You know some birds are not meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. 你知道，有些鳥兒是註定不會被關在樊籠里的，它們的每一片羽毛都閃耀著自由的光輝。

5，There is something inside ,that they can't get to , that they can't touch. That's yours.
那是一種內在的東西, 他們抵達不了,也無法觸及的,那是你的。

6，Life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.
生命就像一盒巧克力，結果每每出人意料。

7，Miracles happen every day.
古跡每天都在產生

8，It made me look like a ck in water. 它讓我如魚得水。

9，I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidentally like on a breeze.
我不懂我們能否有著各自的運氣，還是只是隨處隨風飄盪。

10、Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance.
世界上全部的生命都在微妙的平衡中生活。

11，If god had gifted me with wealth and beauty, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me as it is now for me to leave you.Life is too short, can not be used vengeful build hate如果上帝給我了美貌和財富，讓我離開他們就像讓我離開你一樣困難，生命太短促，不能用來記仇蓄恨

12，But I tell you, you are. So much depressed that a few words more would bring tears to your eyes. Indeed, they are there now, shinning and swimming. Who the hell is that?但我告訴你，你的確是在傷心，如此地傷心，我要是再多說一句話，你就會掉眼淚了。沒錯，你已經在流淚了，淚光閃閃的。是哪個鬼傢伙在那吵？

13， "I resisted all the way: a new thing for me." 我一直堅持，一件對我來說是新的東西

14 ， "Reader, I married him."准備好，我要和他結婚了

15 ，"you would do me good in some way, at some time: I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you; their expression and smile did not.strike delight to my inmost heart so for nothing" 你將在某些時候做的比我好，當我第一次看見在你們轉身過後的眼睛，他們沒有表情也沒有微笑，在我的心裡也沒有落下任何東西。

『叄』 英文名著摘抄，注意是一本書的摘抄。可以是一段。一共要200字的3段以上 句子5句以上。

"Let us take the stuff home," the boy said. "So I can get the cast net and go after the sardines."
They picked up the gear from the boat. The old man carried the mast on his shoulder and the boy carried the wooden bo,4 with the coiled, hard-braided brown lines, the gaff and the harpoon with its shaft. The box with the ts was under the stern of the skiff along with the club that was used to sube the big fish when they were brought alongside. No one would steal from the old man but it was better to take the sail and the heavy lines home as the dew was bad for them and, though he was quite sure no local people would steal from him, the old man thought that a gaff and a harpoon were needless temptations to leave in a boat.
They walked up the road together to the old man's shack and went in through its open door. The old man leaned the mast with its wrapped sail against the wall and the boy put the box and the other gear beside it. The mast was nearly as long as the one room of the shack. The shack was made of the tough budshields of the royal palm which are called guano and in it there was a bed, a table, one chair, and a place on the dirt floor to cook with charcoal. On the brown walls of the flattened, overlapping leaves of the sturdy fibered guano there was a picture in color of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and another of the Virgin of Cobre. These were relics of his wife. Once there had been a tinted photograph of his wife on the wall but he had taken it down because it made him too
lonely to see it and it was on the shelf in the corner under his clean shirt.
摘自《老人與海》海明威
這里有三百多個字

『肆』 英語名著簡寫本好句摘抄 需要30句

《傲慢與偏見》
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
想給我們的喜好找個理由時，腦袋轉的是最快的。
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
生活就是一連串的無事忙。
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
越該做的事，就越急不得。
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
在實際生活中我是個自私的人，但在原則上不是。
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
心靈的柔軟是最大的魅力。
《簡愛》
Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automation? A machine without feelings? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup?
Do you think because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am souless and heartless? You think wrong! I have as much soul as you--and full as much heart! And if god had gifted me with some beauty and wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to live me, as it is now for me to live you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh--it is my spirit that address your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave and we stood at God's feet--equal--as we are!
你以為我會無足輕重的留在這里嗎？你以為我是一架沒有感情的機器人嗎？你以為我貧窮、低微、不美、緲小，我就沒有靈魂，沒有心嗎？你想錯了，我和你有一樣多的靈魂，一樣充實的心。如果上帝賜予我一點美，許多錢，我就要你難以離開我，就象我現在難以離開你一樣。我現在不是以社會生活和習俗的准則和你說話，而是我的心靈同你的心靈講話。彷彿我們已經穿越了墳墓穿越了生死來到上帝的腳下——平等——我們生來如此！

『伍』 外國名著 摘抄好句 中英文

1.我們整天忙忙碌碌，像一群群沒有靈魂的蒼蠅，喧鬧著，躁動著，聽不到靈魂深處的聲音。時光流逝，童年遠去，我們漸漸長大，歲月帶走了許許多多的回憶，也消蝕了心底曾今擁有的那份童稚的純真，我們不顧心靈桎梏，沉溺於人世浮華，專注於利益法則，我們把自己弄丟了。——比徹·斯托《小王子》

2.生活總是讓我們遍體鱗傷，但到後來，那些受傷的地方一定會變成我們最強壯的地方。——海明威《老人與海》

3.回憶就是這樣的，即使是那些充滿深情厚愛的回憶也概莫能外，好像腦子里有一種無意識的癒合過程，盡管我們曾痛下決心永勿忘，但它依然能使創傷癒合。——考琳·麥卡洛《荊棘鳥》

4.這個家庭的歷史是一架周而復始無法停息的機器，是一個轉動著的輪子，這只齒輪，要不是軸會逐漸不可避免地磨損的話，會永遠旋轉下去。——加西亞·馬爾克斯《百年孤獨》

5.過去都是假的，回憶是一條沒有歸途的路，以往的一切春天都無法復原，即使最狂熱最堅貞的愛情，歸根結底也不過是一種瞬息即逝的現實，唯有孤獨永恆。——加西亞·馬爾克斯《百年孤獨》

6.我是說孩子們都在狂奔，也不知道自己是在往哪兒跑，我得從什麼地方出來，把他們捉住。我整天就干這樣的事。我只想當個麥田的守望者。我知道這有點異想天開，可我真正喜歡乾的就是這個。——傑羅姆·大衛·塞林格《麥田裡的守望者》

7.我們確實活得艱難，一要承受種種外部的壓力，更要面對自己內心的困惑。在苦苦掙扎中，如果有人向你投以理解的目光，你會感到一種生命的暖意，或許僅有短暫的一瞥，就足以使我感奮不已。——傑羅姆·大衛·塞林格《麥田裡的守望者》

8.你以為我貧窮、相貌平平就沒有感情嗎?我向你發誓，如果上帝賦予我財富和美貌，我會讓你無法離開我，就像我現在無法離開你一樣。雖然上帝沒有這么做，可我們在精神上依然是平等的。——夏洛蒂·勃朗特《簡愛》

9.我並不願意你受的苦比我受的還大，希斯克利夫。我只願我們永遠不分離：如果我有一句話使你今後難過，想想我在地下也感到一樣的難過，看在我自己的份上，饒恕我吧!——艾米莉·勃朗特《呼嘯山莊》

10.我愛他腳下的土地，頭頂上的空氣，他觸摸過的每一件東西，他說過的每一句話，我愛他所有的神情，每一個動作，還有他整個人，他的全部。——艾米莉·勃朗特《呼嘯山莊》

『陸』 英語名著簡愛讀書筆記。也可以是好句好段。關鍵是要英文的！要註明中文翻譯。 五十句左右。

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!
Jane to Mr. Rochester (Ch. 23)

你以為我窮，不好看，就 沒有感情嗎？我也會的，如果上帝賦予我財富和美貌，我一定使你難於離開我！ 就象現在我難於離開你！上帝沒有這樣！我們的精神是同等的！就如同你跟我經 過墳墓，將同樣站在上帝面前！

『柒』 英語好詞好句好段摘抄大全

1.For beautiful eyes, lookm for the good in others.
2.Comedy is acting out optimism.

『捌』 英語名著摘抄

1、 Monkey is not everying,there's Mastercard & Visa.
鈔票不是萬能的，有時還需要用信用卡。
2、One should like animals,because they are two tasty.
每個人都應該熱愛動物，因為它們很好吃。版
3、Behind every successful man,there is a woman,and behind every unsuccessful man,there are two.
每個成功的男人背權後都有一個女人，每個不成功的男人背後都有兩個女人。

『玖』 英語名著 摘抄

1.Money is not everything. There's Mastercard ＆ Visa.

鈔票不是萬能的,有時還需要信用卡.

2.One should love animals.They are so tasty.

每個人都應該熱愛動物,因為它們很好吃.

3.Behind every successful man, there is a woman.And behind every unsuccessful man ,there are two.

每個成功男人的背後都有一個女人,每個不成功男人背後都有兩個女人.

4.Every man should marry.After all,happiness is not the only thing in life.

再快樂的單身漢遲早也會結婚,幸福不是永久的.

5.The wise never marry,and when they marry they become otherwise.

聰明的人都是未婚的,結婚的人很難再聰明起來.

6.Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

成功是一個相關名詞,它會給你帶來很多不相關的親戚.

7.Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.

不要等明天交不上差再找借口,今天就要找好.

8.Love is photogenic.It needs darkness to develop.

愛情就像照片,需要大量的暗房時間來培養.

9."your future depends on your dreams." So go to sleep.

"現在的夢想決定著你的將來",所以還是再睡一會吧.

10.There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.

應該有更好的方式開始新一天,而不是千篇一律的在每個上午都醒來.

『拾』 英語好段摘抄

A great many people, when they speak of home, tend to associate it with a certain atmosphere, certain physical surroundings, and certain emotional attitudes within themselves. This sentimentality toward home is something that has come down to us from the past. Many modern people do not have it, and I think it is a good thing that they do not.許多人在談到家的時候往往將它和某種氣氛,某種環境及內心的某些情感態度聯系在一起.這種對家的依戀情感古已有之,代代相傳.許多現代人不再有了,我認為這是件好事.In the old days life was difficult. Enemies could attack you and kill or rob you, and you had little protection against them. People did not live in well-built houses where doors could be locked. They did not have the protection of an organized police force or telephones which could summon the police instantly. How did this influence the way people felt about home? Small family groups clung tightly together for protection against beasts and against other men. Only the bravest went beyond the small family area. Even in the Middle Ages only the most daring went to lands beyond sea. The human pursuit of security conditioned men to love their homes. I am sure that this feeling must have been very strong among the early settlers of the United States who were obliged, by famine and oppression, to take the plunge and go to the new land where they knew no one and where they were subject to Indian attack. We can see this even today in the attitudes of minority groups who, because of a feeling of insecurity, still preserve cohesive family ties.在遙遠的過去，人們生活十分艱難．敵人可能會攻擊你，殺害你或搶動你的財富，而你卻毫無還手之力．人們並不住在可以鎖門閉戶的構造堅固的房子里．他們沒有一支有組織的警察隊伍的保護，也不能隨時打電話報警．這些怎樣影響人們對於家的感情呢？小小家庭的成員緊密團結，聚在一起，共同抵禦野獸和敵人．只有最勇敢的人才離開小小的家族管轄區．甚至在中世紀也只有最勇敢的人才敢涉足海外．人類對安全的追求決定了人們對家的熱愛．我相信，美國的早期定居者對此一定深有感觸．他們被飢茺壓迫得走投無路，只好毅然決定冒險來到這個舉目元親．易愛印第安人攻擊的陌生的地方．甚至今天，我們從少數民族團體的態度也可以看出這一點．由於缺乏安全感，他們仍然保持著富有凝聚力的家庭紐帶．Today, thanks to modern transportation and well-organized societies, thousands of people willingly and eagerly leave the surroundings where they were born, and the oftener they do so, the less sentiment they are likely to have for those surroundings. I lived in England for three years, and I noticed that boys and girls left their parents』 homes and lived in dwellings of their own. There they could just telephone and ask an agency to provide them with a house or an apartment, which was their home. How has the meaning of this word home been altered by such activity? What does home mean to those people or to families who often move about, living in first one hotel and then another? I believe that for them home means a place where they can have privacy.今天，由於有了現代交通和組織良好的社會，成千上萬的人們願意並且渴望離開他們出生的環境．而且，他們離家外出越頻繁，對出生的環境的情感就可能越少．我曾經在英國，他們只需拿起電話，要求一家房地產經銷處提供一幢房子或一個套間，那就是他們的家了．家這個詞的意義是如何被這種行為改變的呢？家對於那些經常流動，從一家旅館到另一家旅館居住的人們或家庭成員又意味著什麼呢？我認為，家對他們來說是一個離群獨外不受干擾的地方．This idea of home as being a place of privacy is emerging in my country, Saudi Arabia, where the young are abandoning their parents』 homes to live their own life. As for me, the atmosphere and surroundings of the place where my parents live have no sentimental attachment. Home is where I can shut the door and be by myself. At the moment it is a room in Eaton Hall. When I left my parents several years ago, I was anxious to leave. You might call it unfeeling, but that was the way I felt. On the day of my departure for the United States, my grandmother sobbed and wept. My father, however, indicated that he understood how I felt. 「Son,」 he said, 「I am not sorry that you are leaving us. I only hope that you make the most of your time.在我的國家沙特陳拉伯，年輕人放棄父母的家去過他們自己的生活．這種把家作為私人獨處這地的看法正在我的國家形成．我對父母居住之地的氣氛，環境沒有眷戀的情感．家就是一個我能關起門來獨處的地方．現在我的家就是伊登宿舍的一個房間．幾年前當我離開父母時，我沒有戀戀不舍，巴不得快快離開．你也許會覺得這是無情無義，然而那確實是我的感受．我離家去美國尋衛，祖母嗚咽，淚流不止．但我的父親卻表時他能理解我的心情．」孩子」他說」我對於你的離去並覺得悲傷．我只希望你能充分利用時間．」 Youth

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to st.

Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being』s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for what』s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.

When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you』ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there』s hope you may die young at 80.
·第二篇： Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如給我三天光明（節選）
Three Days to See

All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.

Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings, what regrets?

Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with gentleness, vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of 「Eat, drink, and be merry」. But most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.

In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.

Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.

The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in alt life. But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill.

I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time ring his early alt life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.
·第三篇：Companionship of Books 以書為伴（節選）
Companionship of Books

A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.

A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, 『Love me, love my dog.」 But there is more wisdom in this:」 Love me, love my book.」 The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.

A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man』s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters.

Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting procts of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author』s minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad procts; for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good.

Books introce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see the as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.

The great and good do not die, even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which on still listens.