逛書店時,見到這張橫額:
"When a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write;
a man will turn over half a library to make a book." ~ Samuel Johnson
愛閱讀的又豈只作家?依栗看,第二句該改寫為
The greatest part of a man's time is spent in reading, in order to read; a man will turn over every library in town.
很久沒去圖書館了,看來得快點讀完《金錢崛起》,才能早日重出江湖!
I think his point was in order to write one should read a lot and your point is everyone should read a lot even if they don't write. Again another example for language is context sensitive. He wrote from a writer perspective and you read it from a reader perspective.
回覆刪除[版主回覆02/15/2010 17:07:00]You're right. I'm not a writer and I didn't think from that perspective.
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栗子妹妹: Samuel Johnson 有點自打嘴巴呢 ~ 既然 ”... writes from his OWN MIND" 會是 ”writes very rapidly",便未必要與閱讀有關了,可能是個天才! 我同意你,人該多往書堆裡鑽,只別光做破壞的書蟲就是了 。。
[版主回覆02/15/2010 17:09:00]祝新年進步、身體健康!
我倒是想做一條書蟲,把書本的精髓全吃進肚子裡
回下面﹕不多讀一點書,肚子裡又何來有墨水可以 writes from your own mind﹖ 言之無文,行而不遠。
回覆刪除[版主回覆02/15/2010 17:10:00]認同呢,就像我,只有滿腦子的主意,卻半句也寫不出來,都是少讀書之過
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回覆刪除[版主回覆02/15/2010 17:11:00]您也是啊,找個人陪著看電影逛街買碟,甜甜蜜蜜的
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