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Unit4 [见教材P61]

Writing Between the Lines

阅读时要做读书笔记

Mortimer J. Adler（U.S.）

莫迪摩尔. J. 阿德勒（美国）

①You know you have to read “between the lines” to get the most out of anything. ②I want to persuade you to do something equally important in the course of your reading. ③I want to persuade you to “write between the lines.” ④Unless you do, you are not likely to do the most efficient kind of reading.

①你很清楚，为了能够最充分地理解，你必须要能听读懂言外之

意。②现在，我想建议你在阅读时也要做同等重要的事，那就是建议你在阅读时做读书笔记，否则你的阅读不大可能是最有效的。

①I contend, quite bluntly, that marking up a book is not an act of mutilation but of love.

①坦白说，我认为，人们阅读时在书上做笔记不是毁书，而是爱

书。

①There are two ways in which you can own a book. ②The first is

the property right[you establish by paying for it], just as you pay for clothes and furniture. ③But this act of purchase is only the prelude to possession. ④Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing in it.

⑤An illustration may make the point clear. ⑥You buy a beefsteak and

transfer it from the butcher’s icebox to your own. ⑦But you do not own the beefsteak in the most important senseuntil you consume it and get it into your bloodstream. ⑧I am arguing that books, too, must be absorbed in your bloodstream to do you any good.

①人们可以通过两种方式来拥有一本书。②第一种就是你通过付

款买书而确立产权，就像你花钱买衣服和家具一样。③但是，这种购买行为只是拥有的前提，只有你把书完全变成你自身的一部分时，你才可以说你完全拥有了这本书。④把你（译者加注：作为读者）变成书的一部分的最好办法就是在书上做笔记。⑤有一个例子可以很好地说明这一点。⑥你买一块牛排，这只是把牛排从肉铺的冰箱里转移到了你自己的冰箱里。⑦但是，只有你把这块牛排吃掉并消化以后，你才可以说在最重要的意义上完全拥有了这块牛排。⑧我认为书也是这样，只有它完全融入到你的血液里时，才可以说对你真正有益。

①There are three kinds of book owners. ②The first has all the

standard sets and best-sellers—unread, untouched. ③The second has a great many books—a few of them read through, most of them as clean and shiny as the day they were bought. (This person would probably like to make books his own, but is restrained by a false respect for their physical appearance.) ④The third has a few books or many -----every one of them dog-eared and dilapidated, shaken and loosened by continual use, marked and scribbled in from front to back.

①有书的人常常可以分为三类。②第一类人拥有最完整成套的书，

还有畅销书，但是他们一本也没有读过，甚至就没有碰过。③第二类人也有很多书，但是他们通常只读过其中的几本，而绝大多数都非常干净光亮，与刚刚买回来时一样（这样的人可能非常喜欢占有书，但是错误地认为破坏了书的外观就是对书的不尊重）。④第三种人的书或多，或少。⑤但是，每一本都因为反复阅读而破烂不堪，页角卷起，甚至都散了页，而且从头至尾有很多标注和草草写下的笔记。

①Is it false respect, you may ask, to preserve intact and unblemished

a beautifully printed book, an elegantly bound edition? ②Of course not.

③ 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! ④I wouldn’t mark up a painting or a statue. ⑤Its soul, so to speak, is inseparable from its body.⑥And the beauty of a rare edition or of a richly manufactured volume is like that of a painting or a statue.

①你可能会问，把一本印刷得非常精美的书，或者一个装订得非

常雅致的版本保存地非常干净完整，算不算是对书不应有的尊重呢？

②当然不是。③我绝对不会在第一版的《失乐园》上乱写乱画，我也

同样不会把一套蜡笔和一本由荷兰著名印刷家Rembrandt印刷的原始版的书拿给我的孩子玩耍。④我也不会在画和雕像上做标注。⑤可以这么说，它们的精神内涵是与其物质形式是不可分割的。⑥从美的角度来说，一个珍贵罕有的版本，一本内容丰富的卷册就像是一幅画、一座雕像。

①Butthe soul of a book can be separated from its body. ②A book is more like the score of a piece of music than it is like a painting. ③No great musician confuses a symphony with the printed sheet of music. ④ If your respect for magnificent binding or typography gets in the way, buy yourself a cheap edition and pay your respects to the author.

①但是，书的精神内涵也可以脱离其物质形式。②一本书，与绘

画相比，更像是一首音乐的乐谱。③没有哪一个优秀的音乐家会把交响乐本身和乐谱混为一谈。④如果你对书的优美装帧或排版的尊重妨碍了你的阅读，那么你可以给自己买一个廉价的版本来充分阅读（译者加），以显示你对作者本人的尊重。

① Why is marking up a book indispensable to reading? ②First, it

keeps you awake. (And I don’t mean merely conscious; I mean wide awake.) ③In the second place, reading, if it is active, is thinking, and thinking tends to express itself in words, spoken or written. ④That marked book is usually the thought-through book. ⑤Finally, writing helps you remember the thoughts you had, or the thoughts the author expressed. ⑥ Let me develop these three points.

①为什么说做读书笔记对于阅读是必不可少的呢？②首先，做笔

记可以使你保持清醒（这里不是指神志上的清醒，而是指态度上的清醒）。③第二，阅读，如果是积极的，本身就是思考，思考本身往往会以口头或书面的形式表现出来。④那些布满笔记的书往往就是人们深入思考过的书。⑤最后，做笔记可以让你记录下你曾经有过的思想，或者作者表达过的观点。⑥我会充分阐述这几点。