經(jīng)典美文：讀書(shū)之樂(lè)

　　假如你放下自己不喜歡的書(shū)，另試一本，直到發(fā)現(xiàn)自己覺(jué)得有意義的書(shū)，然后心情輕松地讀下去，你肯定會(huì)感到心情暢快。下面是學(xué)習(xí)啦小編為大家?guī)?lái)英語(yǔ)經(jīng)典美文：讀書(shū)之樂(lè)，希望大家喜歡!

　　All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that havedelighted mankind for centuries,are easily and cheaplyavailable to all of us within the covers of books but wemust know how to avail ourselves of this treasure andhow to get the most from it.The most unfortunatepeople in the world are those who have neverdiscovered how satisfying it is to read good books.

　　I am most interested in people, in them and finding out about them.Some of the most remarkablepeople I’ve met existed only in a writer’s imagination,then on the pages of his book, and then,again, in my imagination.I’ve found in books new friends, new societies, new words.

　　If I am interested in people, others are interested not so much in who as in how.Who in the booksincludeseverybody from science fiction superman two hundred centuries in the future all the wayback to the first figures in history.How covers everything from the ingenious explanations ofSherlock Holmes to the discoveries of science and ways of teaching manner to children.

　　Reading is pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport:your eagerness andknowledgeand quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun,not because the writer is tellingyou something, but because it makes your mind work.Your own imagination works along with theauthor’s or even goes beyond his.Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same ordifferent conclusions,and your ideas develop as you understand his.

　　Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house,but books in a library are like houses in a city.Although they are separate, together they all add up to something, they are connected with eachother and with other cities.The same ideas, or related ones, turn up in different places;the humanproblems that repeatthemselves in life repeat themselves in literature,but with different solutionsaccording to different writings at different times.Books influence each other; they link the past, thepresent and the future and have their own generations,like families.Wherever you start reading youconnect yourself with one of the families of ideas, and in the long run,you not only find out about theworld and the people in it; you find out about yourself, too.

　　Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on books somebody tells you you“ought”to read,you probably won’t have fun. But if you put down a book you don’t like and tryanother till you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almostcertainly have a good tim and if you become, as a result of reading,better, wiser, kinder, or moregentle, you won’t have suffered during the process.

　　美文翻譯：

　　人類(lèi)世世代代全部的聰明才智，幾百年來(lái)愉悅?cè)藗兊乃泄适拢伎梢暂p易而實(shí)惠地從書(shū)中獲得。可是，我們必須要懂得如何利用這一寶藏，進(jìn)而獲得最大收益。世界上最不幸的人就是那些從未體會(huì)到閱讀佳作是多么令人心滿意足的人。

　　我對(duì)人很感興趣，對(duì)他們個(gè)人以及發(fā)掘他們同樣興趣十足。我所碰到的一些卓越的人物只能到作家的想像之中去尋找，然后又體現(xiàn)在作家的作品中，最后又出現(xiàn)在我的想像之中。我在書(shū)中結(jié)識(shí)了新朋友，拓展了社會(huì)知識(shí)，也學(xué)到了新的語(yǔ)言。

　　如果說(shuō)我是對(duì)人感興趣，那么其他人的興趣則是關(guān)注“怎 樣”而不是“誰(shuí)"的問(wèn)題。書(shū)中的"誰(shuí)"所包括的人物可謂豐寓多彩，不僅有科幻小說(shuō)中描寫(xiě)的兩萬(wàn)年之后的超人，還可以追溯到人類(lèi)歷史的幵端。而書(shū)中的"怎樣"所記錄的事情也是千奇百怪，從對(duì)福爾摩斯偵探故事的巧妙敘述到科學(xué)發(fā)現(xiàn)以及管教孩子的方法。

　　讀書(shū)是一種思維享受,也就是說(shuō)有點(diǎn)像體育運(yùn)動(dòng)。善于讀書(shū)的人需要強(qiáng)烈的求知欲、豐富的知識(shí)和敏捷的反應(yīng)。讀書(shū)之所以是一種樂(lè)趣，并不在于作者告訴你什么，而是由于讀書(shū)使你積極思考。在作者的引導(dǎo)之下，你的想像任意馳騁，甚至超越作者的想像。對(duì)比作者的經(jīng)歷,你會(huì)得出自己的結(jié)論，也許相同，也許相悖，而隨著你對(duì)作者思想的逐步理解，你也會(huì)變得越來(lái)越深刻。

　　每一部書(shū)都獨(dú)立存在，猶如獨(dú)門(mén)獨(dú)戶(hù)的房子。而圖書(shū)館中的書(shū)籍則像城市中的建筑。盡管它們各成一體，但是卻共同構(gòu)成一個(gè)整體。不僅它們之間相互關(guān)聯(lián)，而且也與其他城市相互聯(lián)系。相同或者相關(guān)的看法在不同的地方出現(xiàn)。文學(xué)作品中反映的就是人們生活中經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)的事情，但是在不同時(shí)期作者的處理方式卻大相徑庭。書(shū)籍之間也相互影響，它們傳承過(guò)去，體現(xiàn)現(xiàn)在,預(yù)測(cè)未來(lái)，相互聯(lián)系，代代相傳,形成各個(gè)家族。不管你從何處讀起，都會(huì)有一種觀點(diǎn)與你的相符。從長(zhǎng)遠(yuǎn)來(lái)看，你不僅從書(shū)中了解世界，體驗(yàn)別人的生活，你也會(huì)認(rèn)識(shí)你自己。

　　只有你誠(chéng)心讀書(shū)，閱讀才會(huì)成為一種樂(lè)趣。假如你讀的是別人認(rèn)為“該”讀的書(shū)，你很有可能覺(jué)得索然無(wú)味。假如你放下自己不喜歡的書(shū)，另試一本，直到發(fā)現(xiàn)自己覺(jué)得有意義的書(shū)，然后心情輕松地讀下去，你肯定會(huì)感到心情暢快。假如你因閱讀 而變得更為高尚、聰明、善良、文雅，那讀書(shū)的過(guò)程就不再是一種負(fù)擔(dān)了。