【写作佳句及惯用表达】
1.a book that remains shut is but a block. (prov.)
藏书不读如藏木。
2.we may spend our lives in reading fiction, but truth beats fiction all the time, and there has never been yet a novel so wonderful as life itself.
尽管我们一辈子看小说，但现实总是胜过小说，从来没有哪本小说有真正的生活色彩。
3.books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. (prov.)
读书如择友，宜少而精。
all is well that ends well.
结果好一切都好。
4.a good book is a best friend who never turns his back upon us. (prov.)
好书如挚友，永远不相负。
5.books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. —g.w. curtis
书籍乃储积智慧之不灭明灯。 ——葛迪斯
6.a good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. (prov.)
好书如挚友，情谊永不渝。
7.some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. —f. bacon书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。——培根
8.books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. —r.l. stevenson从它们自己所发生的效用上，书籍真是够好的东西，但它们是很强悍的、不见血的生命替代者。——史蒂文森
9.there is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book, and the tired man who wants a book to read. —g.k. chesterton
一个热心求知者要去读一本书，一个疲倦的人需要一本书来读，这两种人之间有很大的区别。 ——吉士特顿
10.life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few; we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.—john ruskin
生命是短暂的，而其中寂静的时光更少，我们不应花其中的宝贵时间去读无价值的书。 ——罗斯金
11.that is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. —l. m. alcott
好书开卷引人入胜，终卷使人获益。 ——亚尔葛脱
12.only two classes of books are of universal appeal. the very best and the very worst. —f. m. ford
只有两类书有广泛的吸引力：真正最好的和最坏的。——福特
calamity is man’s true touchstone.
患难之中见人心。