激情晨讀英語(yǔ)美文 第四章 充實(shí)你的思想:讀書(shū)的樂(lè)趣

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:]聽(tīng)力課堂 pm4x.cn [00:05.33]Chapter Four Feed Your Mind [00:09.27]Hunger of the mind [00:10.69]can be satiated through extensive reading. [00:14.62]There are innumerable books in this world [00:16.81]which will answer all your “How to?” questions. [00:20.31]Once you read a book, [00:21.63]you just don’t run your eyes through the lines, [00:24.36]but even your mind decodes it and explains it to you. [00:27.86]The interesting part of the book [00:29.28]is stored in your mind as a seed. [00:31.47]This seed will unknowingly be used by you [00:33.87]in your future to develop new ideas. [00:37.27]The same seed if used many times can help you link [00:39.67]and relate a lot of things, [00:42.73]of which you would have never thought of [00:44.81]in your wildest dreams! [00:46.89]This is nothing but creativity. [00:49.41]More the number of books you read, [00:51.60]your mind will open up like never before. [01:04.50]The Pleasure of Reading [01:06.36]All the wisdom of the ages, [01:08.00]all the stories that [01:09.21]have delighted mankind for centuries, [01:11.61]are easily and cheaply available [01:13.36]to all of us within the covers of books [01:16.53]but we must know how to avail ourselves [01:18.17]of this treasure and how to get the most from it. [01:21.45]The most unfortunate people in the world are those [01:23.97]who have never discovered how satisfying [01:25.83]it is to read good books. [01:29.55]I am most interested in people, [01:31.30]in them and finding out about them. [01:33.48]Some of the most remarkable people [01:35.01]met existed only in a writer’s imagination, [01:38.41]then on the pages of his book, [01:40.37]and then, again,in my imagination. [01:42.67]I’ve found in books new friends, [01:44.53]new societies, new words. [01:47.37]If I am interested in people, [01:49.12]others are interested not so much in who as in how. [01:52.95]Who in the books includes everybody [01:54.71]from science fiction superman [01:56.35]two hundred centuries in the future [01:58.32]all the way back to the first figures in history. [02:01.38]How covers everything from the ingenious explanations [02:04.34]of Sherlock Holmes to the discoveries of science [02:07.40]and ways of teaching manners to children. [02:10.46]Reading is pleasure of the mind, [02:12.43]which means that it is a little like a sport: [02:14.84]your eagerness and knowledge and quickness [02:16.59]make you a good reader. [02:18.66]Reading is fun, not because [02:19.97]the writer is telling you something, [02:22.49]but because it makes your mind work. [02:24.90]Your own imagination works along with [02:26.65]the author’s or even goes beyond his. [02:29.71]Your experience, compared with his, [02:32.55]brings you to the same or different conclusions, [02:35.18]and your ideas develop as you understand his. [02:38.79]Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, [02:42.62]but books in a library are like houses in a city. [02:46.23]Although they are separate, [02:47.87]together they all add up to something, [02:49.73]they are connected with each other [02:50.82]and with other cities. [02:53.01]The same ideas, or related ones, [02:54.98]turn up in different places; [02:57.17]the human problems that repeat themselves in life [02:59.57]repeat themselves in literature, [03:01.76]but with different solutions according to [03:03.18]different writings at different times. [03:06.46]Books influence each other; [03:08.21]they link the past, the present and the future [03:10.94]and have their own generations, like families. [03:13.89]Wherever you start reading you connect yourself [03:15.75]with one of the families of ideas, [03:17.94]and in the long run, [03:19.04]you not only find out about the world [03:20.78]and the people in it; [03:22.32]you find out about yourself, too. [03:24.51]Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. [03:27.56]If you concentrate on books [03:28.66]somebody tells you “ought” to read, [03:30.63]you probably won’t have fun. [03:33.03]But if you put down a book [03:34.46]you don’t like and try another [03:35.77]till you find one that means something to you, [03:37.96]and then relax with it, [03:39.82]you will almost certainly have a good time — [03:42.77]and if you become, [03:43.97]as a result of reading, better, wiser, kinder, [03:47.58]or more gentle, [03:48.89]you won’t have suffered during the process.

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