Reading Good Books
Devote some of your leisure, I repeat, to cultivating a love of reading good
books. Fortunate indeed are those who contrive to make themselves genuine
book-lovers. For book lovers have some noteworthy advantages over other
people. They need never know lonely hours so long as they have books
around them, and the better the books the more delightful the company. From good books, moreover, they draw much besides entertainment. They gain
mental food such as few companions can supply. Even while resting from
their labors they are, through the books they read, equipping themselves to
perform those labors more efficiently. This albeit they may not be deliberately reading to improve their mind. All unconsciously the ideas they derive from
the printed paged are stored up, to be worked over by the imagination for
future profit.
(135 words)
From Self-Development
By Henry Addington Bruce
contrive
[kEn5traiv]
v.
发明, 设计, 图谋
noteworthy
[5nEutwE:Ti]
adj.
值得注目的, 显著的
albeit
[C:l5bi:It]
conj.
虽然
本文强调了培养阅读优质书籍习惯的重要性。对于书爱好者来说,书籍不仅是消遣的好伴侣,还能提供精神食粮,并通过阅读来提升自我,使人在休息的同时为更高效的工作做准备。即使不是刻意地为了提高心智而阅读,书中汲取的思想也会在潜移默化中得到积累,为未来带来收益。
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