英語美文賞析:以書為伴

2023年12月11日發(作者：電工實訓心得)

英語美文賞析：以書為伴

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.

通常看一個讀些什么書就可知道他的為人，就像看他同什么人交往就可知道他的為人一樣，因為有人以人為伴，也有人以書為伴。無論是書友還是朋友，我們都應該以的為伴。

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.

好書就像是你的朋友。它始終不渝，過去如此，現在如此，將來也永遠不變。它是最有耐心，最令人愉悅的伴侶。在我們窮愁潦倒，臨危遭難時，它也不會拋棄我們，對我們總是一如既往地親切。在我們年輕時，好書陶冶我們的性情，增長我們的知識；到我們年老時，它又給我們以慰藉和勉勵。

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.

人們常常因為喜歡同一本書而結為知已，就像有時兩個人因為敬慕同一個人而成為朋友一樣。有句古諺說道：“愛屋及屋。”其實“愛我及書”這句話蘊涵更多的哲理。書是更為真誠而高尚的情誼紐帶。人們能夠通過共同喜愛的作家溝通思想，交流感情，彼此息息相通，并與自己喜歡的作家思想相通，情感相融。

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.

好書常如最精美的寶器，珍藏著人生的思想的精華，因為人生的境界主要就在于其思想的境界。所以，的書是金玉良言和崇高思想的寶庫，這些良言和思想若銘記于心并多加珍視，就會成為我們忠實的伴侶和永恒的慰藉。

Books posss an esnce of immortality. They are by far the

most lasting products 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 pasd

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 has been to sift out

the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive

but what is really good.

書籍具有不朽的本質，是為人類努力創造的最為持久的成果。寺廟會倒坍，神像會朽爛，而書卻經久長存。對于偉大的思想來說，時間是無關緊要的。多年前初次閃現于作者腦海的偉大思想今日依然清新如故。時間惟一的作用是淘汰不好的作品，因為只有真正的佳作才能經世長存。

Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into

the prence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We

hear what they said and did; we e them 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.

書籍介紹我們與秀的人為伍，使我們置身于歷代偉人巨匠之間，如聞其聲，如觀其行，如見其人，同他們情感交融，悲喜與共，感同身受。我們覺得自己仿佛在作者所描繪的舞臺上和他們一起粉墨登場。

The great and good do not die, even in this ed

in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living

voice. It is an intellect to which on still listens.

即使在人世間，偉大杰出的人物也永生不來。他們的精神被載入書冊，傳于四海。書是人生至今仍在聆聽的智慧之聲，永遠充滿著活力。