精美英文欣赏:阅读好书

（单词翻译）

Devote some of your leisure, I repeat, to cultivating a love of reading good books. Fortunateindeed are those who contrive¹ to make themselves genuine book-lovers. For book- lovers havesome noteworthy advantages over other people. They need never know lonely hours so long asthey have books around them, and the better the books the more delightful² the company. From good books, moreover, they draw much besides entertainment. They gain mental foodsuch as few companions can supply. Even while resting from their labors³ they are, through thebooks they read, equipping themselves to perform those labors more efficiently⁴. This albeit~ they may not be deliberately⁵ reading to improve their mind. All unconsciously the ideas theyderive from the printed pages are stored up, to be worked over by the imagination for theirfuture profit.

阅读好书

我再说一遍，把你的一部分空闲时光用来培养阅读好书的爱好吧。那些设法把自己培养成为真正爱好读书的人，确实是幸运的。因为爱读书的人比之别人有着明显的好处。只要手头有书，他们就从来不知寂寞。书越好，读来越是津津有味。他们从好书中不但得到乐趣，而且受到很多教益。他们从中获得的那种精神食粮，从其他地方是很难得到的。即使是在工作休息时，通过读书，他们的工作效率也能更加提高，尽管他们未必有意识地想到读书是为了提高才智。在全然不知不觉中，他们从书中吸取的知识积累起来，经过想想象力的加工，对将来大有用处。