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There are all kinds of devices for marking a book intelligently and fruitfully. Here's the way I do it:
在書上作記號，有各種各樣好的、行之有效的方法。現將我的做法敘述如下:
1. Underlining: of major points, of important or forceful statements.
1.在文字下面劃線:劃出主要論點及重要的或者有力的論述。
2. Vertical lines at the margin: to emphasize a statement already underlined.
2.在頁邊空白處劃豎線:強調已劃線的論述部分。
3. Star, asterisk, or other doo-dad at the margin: to be used sparingly, to emphasize the ten or twenty most important statements in the book.
3.在頁邊空白處畫五星或六星記號，或其他小符號:這種記號宜珍惜著用。可用來強調書中十處或二十處最重要的論述。
4. Numbers in the margin: to indicate the sequence of points the author makes in developing a single argument.
4.在頁邊空白處寫數字:標明作者展開一個論據的各點順序。
5. Numbers of other pages in the margin: to indicate where else in the book the author made points relevant to the point marked; to tie up the ideas in a book, which, though they may be separated by many pages, belong together.
5.在頁邊空處寫其他頁的頁碼:標明作者在本書其他地方所寫的與本論點有關的論點，也可以通過這一辦法將書中雖分散各處，但密切有關的觀點聯系起來。
6. Circling of key words or phrases.
6.在關鍵字眼或短語上畫圈圈。
7. Writing in the margin, or at the top or bottom of the page, for the sake of: recording questions (and perhaps answers) which a passage raised in your mind; reducing a complicated discussion to a simple statement; recording the sequence of major points right through thebook. I use the end-papers at the back of the book to make a personal index of the author's points in the order of their appearance.
7.在頁邊空白處或上下兩端加批注:其目的是記下某段文章在你腦子里引起的問題(也許還有答案)；簡要記下復雜的論述；記錄貫串全書的一系列的重要論點。我利用書末的襯頁將作者的觀點按出現的先后次序編成一個索引。
The front end-papers are, to me, the most important. Some people reserve them for a fancy bookplate. I reserve them for fancy thinking. After I have finished reading the book and making my personal index on the back end-papers, I turn to the front and try to outline thebook, not page by page, or point by point (I've already done that at the back), but as an integrated structure, with a basic unity and an order of parts. This outline is, to me, the measure of my understanding of the work.
書前的襯頁對我來說是最重要的。有些人將它們留作貼花哨的藏書票用。我將它們留作奇思異想的天地。在我讀完一本書并在卷尾襯頁上做好我的個人索引之后，我便翻到卷首，試著將全書作一概述，不是逐頁地或逐點地進行（那個我在卷尾已經做了），而是作為一個整體，基本上前后連貫，各部分排列有序。對我來說，這個概述表明了我對該著作理解的程度。
