7. Is it false respect, you may ask, to preserve intact and unblemished a beautifully printed book, an elegantly bound edition? Of course not. I'd no more scribble all over a first edition of "Paradise Lost" than I'd give my baby a set of crayons and an original Rembrandt! I wouldn't mark up a painting or a statue. Its soul, so to speak, is inseparable from its body. And the beauty of a rare edition or of a richly manufactured volume is like that of a painting or a statue.
7、你可能要問，將一本印刷精美、裝幀雅致的書保存完好，難道也是不恰當?shù)膯?當然不是。我絕不會在一本初版的《失樂園》上亂涂亂寫，就像我不會把一幅倫勃朗的原作連同一盒蠟筆交給我的孩子任意涂抹一樣!我決不會在一幅繪畫或者一座雕像上做標記。、
8. But the soul of a book can be separated from its body. A book is more like the score of a piece of music than it is like a painting. No great musician confuses a symphony with the printed sheet of music. Arturo Toscanini revered Brahms, but Toscanini's score of the C-minor Symphony was so thoroughly marked up that no one but the maestro himself could read it. The reason why a great conductor makes notations on his musical scores—marks them up again and again each time he returns to study them—is the reason why you should mark your books. If your respect for magnificent binding or typography gets in the way, buy yourself a cheap edition and pay your respects to the author.
8、但是，一本書的靈魂能夠從它的軀體里分離出來。與其說它像下幅畫，還不如說它更像一首樂曲的總譜。任何偉大的音樂家都不會將一首交響曲和一張印刷的樂譜相混淆。托斯卡尼尼非常崇敬博拉姆斯，但他的C小調交響曲的樂譜上畫滿了標記，以致只有大師本人才能看懂。為什么一個偉大的指揮家會在樂譜上做記號—甚至每次研究都會重復標記—其中的奧妙正是你應該在書上做記號的原因。如果你對華美的裝幀和印刷的尊重妨礙你讀書的話，就給自己買一種便宜的版本，同時對書的作者表達敬意就可以了。
9. Why is marking up a book indispensable to reading? First, it keeps you awake. (And I don't mean merely conscious; I mean wide awake.) In the second place, reading, if it is active, is thinking, and thinking tends to express itself in words, spoken or written. That marked book is usually the thought-through book. Finally, writing helps you remember the thoughts you had, or the thoughts the author expressed.
9、為什么在閱讀過程中在書上做標記是必不可少的呢?首先，它會使你保持清醒。(我指的不是僅僅神智清醒；我的意思是它能使你全神貫注。)其次，如果閱讀是一種能動的行為，那么它就是思考，而想法常常須借助口頭的或書面的語言來表達出來。做過記號的書，通常是讀者認真思考過的書。最后，寫可以幫助你記住閱讀時的思想，或作者所表達的思想。
10. If reading is to accomplish anything more than passing time, it must be active. You can't let your eyes glide across the lines of a book and come up with an understanding of what you have read. Now an ordinary piece of light fiction, like, say, Gone 14h'th the Wind, doesn't require the most active kind of reading. The books you read for pleasure can be read in a state of relaxation, and nothing is lost. But a great book, rich in ideas and beauty, a book that raises and tries to answer great fundamental questions, demands the most active reading of which you are capable. You don't absorb the ideas of John Dewey3 the way you absorb the songs of a popular singer. You have to reach for them. That you cannot do while you're asleep.
10、如果(你的)閱讀的目的不僅僅是消磨時間，那就應該是一種積極的思維活動，僅僅讓你的眼睛在書上掃視一遍，你不可能對所讀的內容有所理解。當然，一部普通的消遣小說，比如說《飄》，并不需要那種最積極的思維式的閱讀。作為消遣的書，可以輕松地讀而不會有所失。但一本思想豐富、文字華美，試圖提出帶根本性的重大問題并加以回答的偉大著作，則要求你盡可能地進行最積極的閱讀。你不可能像欣賞流行歌曲那樣領略杜威的思想。你要花力氣才能獲得，漫不經(jīng)心是做不到的。
11. If, when you've finished reading a book, the pages are filled with your notes, you know you read actively. The most famous active reader of great books I know was President Hutchins, of the University of Chicago. He also had the hardest schedule of business activities of any man I know. He invariably read with a pencil, and sometimes, when he picked up a book and pencil in the evening, he found himself, instead of making intelligent notes, drawing what he called "caviar factories" on the margins. When that happened, he put the book down. He knew he was too tired to read, and was just wasting time.
11、如果，你讀完一本書的時候，書頁上寫滿了你的批注，你就知道自己的閱讀是積極的。我知道的最有名的采用積極方式閱讀偉大著作的人是，芝加哥大學的校長哈金斯。他也是我所知道的公務最繁忙的人。他讀書時總是拿著鉛筆。有時，當他在晚上拿起書和鉛筆的時候，發(fā)覺自己并沒有在做有意義的筆記，而是在頁邊空白處亂涂亂畫一些他稱之為“魚子醬工廠”的東西。一出現(xiàn)這種情況，他就會放下書本。他知道自己太累了以致讀不下去，(再繼續(xù)看書)完全是在浪費時間。
7、你可能要問，將一本印刷精美、裝幀雅致的書保存完好，難道也是不恰當?shù)膯?當然不是。我絕不會在一本初版的《失樂園》上亂涂亂寫，就像我不會把一幅倫勃朗的原作連同一盒蠟筆交給我的孩子任意涂抹一樣!我決不會在一幅繪畫或者一座雕像上做標記。、
8. But the soul of a book can be separated from its body. A book is more like the score of a piece of music than it is like a painting. No great musician confuses a symphony with the printed sheet of music. Arturo Toscanini revered Brahms, but Toscanini's score of the C-minor Symphony was so thoroughly marked up that no one but the maestro himself could read it. The reason why a great conductor makes notations on his musical scores—marks them up again and again each time he returns to study them—is the reason why you should mark your books. If your respect for magnificent binding or typography gets in the way, buy yourself a cheap edition and pay your respects to the author.
8、但是，一本書的靈魂能夠從它的軀體里分離出來。與其說它像下幅畫，還不如說它更像一首樂曲的總譜。任何偉大的音樂家都不會將一首交響曲和一張印刷的樂譜相混淆。托斯卡尼尼非常崇敬博拉姆斯，但他的C小調交響曲的樂譜上畫滿了標記，以致只有大師本人才能看懂。為什么一個偉大的指揮家會在樂譜上做記號—甚至每次研究都會重復標記—其中的奧妙正是你應該在書上做記號的原因。如果你對華美的裝幀和印刷的尊重妨礙你讀書的話，就給自己買一種便宜的版本，同時對書的作者表達敬意就可以了。
9. Why is marking up a book indispensable to reading? First, it keeps you awake. (And I don't mean merely conscious; I mean wide awake.) In the second place, reading, if it is active, is thinking, and thinking tends to express itself in words, spoken or written. That marked book is usually the thought-through book. Finally, writing helps you remember the thoughts you had, or the thoughts the author expressed.
9、為什么在閱讀過程中在書上做標記是必不可少的呢?首先，它會使你保持清醒。(我指的不是僅僅神智清醒；我的意思是它能使你全神貫注。)其次，如果閱讀是一種能動的行為，那么它就是思考，而想法常常須借助口頭的或書面的語言來表達出來。做過記號的書，通常是讀者認真思考過的書。最后，寫可以幫助你記住閱讀時的思想，或作者所表達的思想。
10. If reading is to accomplish anything more than passing time, it must be active. You can't let your eyes glide across the lines of a book and come up with an understanding of what you have read. Now an ordinary piece of light fiction, like, say, Gone 14h'th the Wind, doesn't require the most active kind of reading. The books you read for pleasure can be read in a state of relaxation, and nothing is lost. But a great book, rich in ideas and beauty, a book that raises and tries to answer great fundamental questions, demands the most active reading of which you are capable. You don't absorb the ideas of John Dewey3 the way you absorb the songs of a popular singer. You have to reach for them. That you cannot do while you're asleep.
10、如果(你的)閱讀的目的不僅僅是消磨時間，那就應該是一種積極的思維活動，僅僅讓你的眼睛在書上掃視一遍，你不可能對所讀的內容有所理解。當然，一部普通的消遣小說，比如說《飄》，并不需要那種最積極的思維式的閱讀。作為消遣的書，可以輕松地讀而不會有所失。但一本思想豐富、文字華美，試圖提出帶根本性的重大問題并加以回答的偉大著作，則要求你盡可能地進行最積極的閱讀。你不可能像欣賞流行歌曲那樣領略杜威的思想。你要花力氣才能獲得，漫不經(jīng)心是做不到的。
11. If, when you've finished reading a book, the pages are filled with your notes, you know you read actively. The most famous active reader of great books I know was President Hutchins, of the University of Chicago. He also had the hardest schedule of business activities of any man I know. He invariably read with a pencil, and sometimes, when he picked up a book and pencil in the evening, he found himself, instead of making intelligent notes, drawing what he called "caviar factories" on the margins. When that happened, he put the book down. He knew he was too tired to read, and was just wasting time.
11、如果，你讀完一本書的時候，書頁上寫滿了你的批注，你就知道自己的閱讀是積極的。我知道的最有名的采用積極方式閱讀偉大著作的人是，芝加哥大學的校長哈金斯。他也是我所知道的公務最繁忙的人。他讀書時總是拿著鉛筆。有時，當他在晚上拿起書和鉛筆的時候，發(fā)覺自己并沒有在做有意義的筆記，而是在頁邊空白處亂涂亂畫一些他稱之為“魚子醬工廠”的東西。一出現(xiàn)這種情況，他就會放下書本。他知道自己太累了以致讀不下去，(再繼續(xù)看書)完全是在浪費時間。