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1、 谈一场恋爱就像读一本新书Starting a new book is a risk, just like falling in love. You have to commit to it. You open the pages knowing a little bit about it maybe, from the back or from a blurb on the front. But who knows, right? Those bits and pieces arent always right.读一本新书恰似坠入爱河，是场冒险。你得全身心投入进去。翻开书页之时，从序言简介直
2、至封底你或许都知之甚少。但谁又不是呢？字里行间的只言片语亦不总是正确。Sometimes people advertise themselves as one thing and then when you get deep into it you realize that theyre something completely different. Either there was some good marketing attached to a terrible book, or the story was only explained in a superficial way and
3、once you reach the middle of the book, you realize theres so much more to this book than anyone could have ever told you.有时候你会发现，人们自我推销时是一种形象，等你再深入了解后，他们又完全是另一种模样了。有时拙作却配有出色的市场推销，故事的叙述却流于表面，阅读过半后，你方才发觉：这本书真是出乎意料地妙不可言，这种感受只要靠自己去感悟！You start off slow. The story is beginning to unfold. Youre unsure. It
4、s a big commitment lugging this tome around. Maybe this book wont be that great but youll feel guilty about putting it down. Maybe itll be so awful youll keep hate-reading or just set it down immediately and never pick it up again. Or maybe youll come back to it some night, drunk or lonely needing s
5、omething to fill the time, but it wont be any better than it was when you first started reading it.你慢慢翻页，故事开始缓慢展开，而你却依旧心存犹疑。阅读这样的巨著需要百分之百的投入。或许它并不是你想象中的伟大的作品，奈何半途弃读会使你觉得不安。又或许，故事真的很烂，你要么咬牙苦读下去，要么立刻放弃束之高阁。抑或某个酒醉或孤寂的夜晚，你又重新捡起这本书来但只为打发时光。不管怎样，它并没有比你初次阅读时好多少。Maybe youre worn out. Youve read tons of book
6、s before. Some were just light weights on a Kindle or Nook, no big deal really. Others were Infinite Jest-style burdens, heavy on your back or in your purse. Weighing you down all the time. Maybe youve taken some time off from reading because the last few books you read just werent worth it. Do they
7、 even write new, great works of literature anymore? Maybe that time you fell in love with a book before will just never happen for you again. Maybe its a once in a lifetime feeling and youre never gonna find it again.或许你已疲惫至极。你曾阅览无数，有些无足轻重无甚重要，而有些却像荒诞讽刺的包袱，沉重地压在你背上或藏在你行囊里，随时都可能压垮你。或许因为上次读的书索然无味，你已暂时
8、避开阅读时光。还会有优秀的新文学作品么？只怕等你再次恋上一本书前，那优秀的新作品永远也不会出现罢。或许这真的就是千年等一回、除却巫山不是云了。Or something exciting could happen. Maybe this will become your new favorite book. Thats always a possibility right? Thats the beauty of risk. The reward could actually be worth it. You invest your time and your brain power in th
9、e words and what you get back is empathy and a new understanding and pure wonder.当然，生活总会有新鲜事发生，你也会有新的爱书。一切总有可能，不是吗？这正是冒险的魅力。得到的也大抵物有所值吧。你在字里行间播撒时间和心思，自然便可收获新的感悟、理解与遐思。How could someone possibly know you like this? Some stranger, some author, some character. Its like theyre seeing inside your soul. T
10、his book existed inside some book store, on a shelf, maybe handled by other people and really it was just waiting for you pick it up and crack the spine. It was waiting to speak to you. To say, “You are not alone.”怎会有人知道你喜欢它呢？某个陌生人、作者，抑或书中的某个角色。他们似乎能看透你的心思。这本书，它陈列在某隅书店的书架上、它经人辗转，真的就像是在等你捧起翻阅，等着向你低语：
11、“我会伴你左右。”You just want more of the story. You want to keep reading, maybe everything this authors ever written. You wish it would never end. The closer it gets to the smaller side of the pages, the slower you read, wanting to savor it all. This book is now one of your favorites forever. You will alw
12、ays wish you could go back to never having read it and pick it up fresh again, but also you know youre better for having this close, inside you, covering your heart and mind.你渴望更多故事，你继续阅读，甚至搜集这位作者以往所有作品。你希望故事永远延续。书页越翻越薄，你也越读越慢，心里想着要细细含英咀华。此刻，它确定无疑就是你永恒的至爱了。你总想一读再读，每次捧起它都感觉新奇如初，而你也明白：因为内心深处的每一缕思绪都与它这
13、般亲密，你已变得更加美好。Once you get in deep enough, you know you could never put this book down.情动至深那刻，你便知道自己再也将它割舍不下了。 来自内心的礼物The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.- Eric Hoffer世界上最难的算术题是如何清点我们的祝福。According to legend, a young man while roaming the desert came across
14、 a spring of delicious crystal-clear water. The water was so sweet, he filled his leather canteen so he could bring some back to a tribal elder who had been his teacher.据传说，一个年轻的男子在漫游沙漠途中看到一泉如水晶般清澈而可口的水。水的味道非常甜美，于是他灌满了他的皮水壶，这样就可以带一些回去，送给曾经是他老师的部落长老。After a four-day journey he presented the water to
15、the old man who took a deep drink, smiled warmly and thanked his student lavishly for the sweet water. The young man returned to his village with a happy heart.经过四天的旅程，他把水呈献给老人。老人深饮一口，和蔼地笑了笑，并深切感激学生赠予他甜美的水。年轻人怀着愉快的心情回到了村庄。Later, the teacher let another student taste the water. He spat it out, saying
16、 it was awful. It apparently had become stale because of the old leather container.后来，老师让他的另一个学生品尝水。学生吐了出来，说水太难喝了。它显然已经因为陈旧的皮革容器而变得不再新鲜。The student challenged his teacher: Master, the water was foul. Why did you pretend to like it?学生质疑他的老师：“师父，水是臭的，你为什么要假装喜欢它？”The teacher replied, You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container fo
