Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: Your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work.
讀書是一種精神的享受,有點類似體育運動:善于讀書的人需要擁有強烈的渴望,淵博的學識和敏捷的反應。閱讀是有趣的,不是因為作者在告訴你什么,而是因為它讓你的大腦運轉。
Your own imagination works along with the author’s or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your own ideas develop as you understand his.
你自己的想象力和作者的一起工作,甚至超越他。你的經驗,與他的相比,帶給你相同或不同的結論,你自己的想法隨著你對他的理解而發展。