英语高手请进..能帮我翻译一下这段文字吗..用比较优美的汉语..有急用..太谢谢啦..The greatest adva
英语高手请进..
能帮我翻译一下这段文字吗..用比较优美的汉语..有急用..太谢谢啦..
The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them,but from their suggestiveness.A good book often serves as a match to light the dormant power within us.There is explosive material enough in most of us if we can only reach it.A good book or a good friend often serves to wake up our latent possibilities.Books often excite thought in great writers,even upon entirely different subjects.We often find in books what we thought and felt,could we have expressed ourselves.Indeed,we get acquainted with ourselves in books.We discover one feature in Emerson,an expression in Homer,a glimpse of ourselves in Dante,and so on until we spell out our whole individuality.True,we get many pleasing reflections of ourselves from friends,many mirrored deformities from our enemies,and a characteristic here and there from the world;but in a calm and unbiased way we find the most of ourseives,our strength,our weakness,our breath,our limitations,our opinions,our tastes,our harmonies and discords,our poetic and prosaic qualities,in books.
We form many of our opinions from our favorite books.The author whom we prefer is our most potent teacher;we look at the world through his eyes.If we habitually read books that are elevating in tone,pure in style,sound in reasoning,and keen in insight,our minds develop the same characteristics.If,on the contrary,we read weak or vicious books,our minds contract the faults and vices of the books.We cannot escape the influence of what we read any more than we can escape the influence of the air that we breathe.