佚名/Anonymous
You know you have to read "between the lines" to get the most out of anything.I want to persuade you to do something equally important in the course of your reading.I want to persuade you to "write between th e lines".Unless you do,you are not likely to do the most efficient ki nd of reading.
I contend,quite bluntly,that marking up a book is not an act of mu tilation but of love.
There are two ways in which one can own a book.The first is the pro perty right you establish by paying for it,just as you pay for clothes and furniture.But this act of purchase is only the prelude to possessio n.Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself,a nd the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing in it.An il lustration may make the point clear.You buy a beefsteak and transfer it from the butcher' s icebox to your own.But you do not own the beefstea k in the most important sense until you consume it and get it into your bloodstream.I am arguing that books,too,must be absorbed in your bloo dstream to do you any good.
There are three kinds of book owners.The first has all the standard sets and best-sellers-unread,untouched.(This deluded individual owns w ood,pulp and ink,not books.) The second has a great many books-a few of them read through,most of them dipped into,but all 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 ph ysical appearance.) The third has a few books or many-every one of them dogeared and dilapidated,shaken and loosened by continual use,marked a nd scribbled in from front to back.This man owns books.
Why is marking up a book indispensable to reading it?First,it keep s you awake.And I don't mean merely conscious;I mean wide awake.In t he second place,reading,if it is active,is thinking,and thinking len ds to express itself in words,spoken or written.The marked book is usu ally the thought-through book.Finally writing helps you remember the th oughts you had,or the thoughts the author expressed.
If reading is to accomplish anything more than passing time,it must be active.You can't let your eyes glide across the jnns of a book and come up with an understanding of what you have read.The books you read for pleasure cad 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 o f which you are capable.If,when you've finished reading a book the pa ges are filled with your notes,you know that you read actively.
But you may ask,why is writing necessary?Well,the physical act of writing,with your own hand,brings words,and sentences more sharply be fore your mind and protrayes them better in your memory.To set down you r reaction to important words and sentences you have read,and the quest ions they have raised in your mind,is to preserve those reactions and s harpen those questions.
Even if you wrote on a scratch pad,and threw the paper away when yo u had finished writing,your grasp of the book would be surer.But you d on't have to throw the paper away.The margins (top and bottom,as welt as side),the end-papers the wary space between the lines are all availa ble.They aren' t sacred.And,best of all,your marks and notes become an integral part of the book and stay there forever.You can pick up the book the following week of year,and there are all your points of agreem ent,disagreement,doubt,and inquiry.It's like resuming an interrupte d conversation with the advantage of being able to pick up where you lef t off.
And that is exactly what reading a book should be:a conversation be tween you and the author.Presumably he knows more about the subject tha n you do;naturally,you'll have the proper humility as you approach hi m.But don't let anybody tell you that a reader is supposed to be solel y on the receiving end.Understanding is a two-way operation;learning d oesn't consist in being an empty receptacle.The learner has to questio n himself and question the teacher.He even has to argue with the teache r,once he understands what the teacher is saying.And marking a book is literally an expression of your differences,or agreements of opinion,w ith the author.
眾所周知，在讀書時，隻有參透文章的字字句句，才能獲得最大的收獲。此外，我還想建議大家，在閱讀時，在書上寫批注也是同等重要的。如果不這樣做，你就不可能實現最高效的閱讀。
我要作一個相當坦率的聲辯，在書上寫批注是對書的愛護，而不是對書的損毀。
人們可以通過兩種方式擁有一本書。第一種是通過出錢購買而獲得書的所有權，就像購買衣服和家具一樣。可是，購買隻是擁有書的第一步。隻有當你把書變成自己的一部分時，你才完全擁有了它，而在書上寫批注是使書成為自己的一部分的最好辦法。為了把這個問題講得更透徹，我們來打一個比方。比如你買了一塊牛排，這隻是說你把它從肉鋪的冰箱轉移到了自己的冰箱裏，從嚴格意義上來講，你並沒有擁有它，隻有當你把牛排吃掉並吸收到自己的血液中，你才真正擁有了它。通過這個例子，我想說明，隻有當你把書吸收到自己的血液中去，它才會對你產生益處。
書的主人可以分為三種。第一種擁有各種各樣的精裝書和暢銷書，卻從未讀過，甚至碰都沒有碰過（這種錯誤地理解擁有書的人，擁有的僅僅是紙漿和油墨）。第二種人擁有許多書，隻是細讀了幾本，然而大部分書隻是瀏覽了一下，所有的書都像剛剛買回來時那樣幹淨和光亮。這種人很可能想要擁有書，然而卻因對書的外表的錯誤尊重所限製。第三種人或許有幾本書，也可能有許多書，他在書中從頭到尾都作了標注，由於頻繁地使用，每本書都有卷角和破損，書頁也已經鬆動，這種人才是真正擁有書的人。
對於閱讀，為什麽說寫批注是必不可少的呢？首先，寫批注能夠使你保持清醒。我這裏說的清醒不僅僅是指有意識，而是思維非常清晰。其次，積極的閱讀就是思考，而思考能夠產生口頭或書麵語言的表達形式。最後，寫批注有助於記住自己曾經的想法或作家所表達的想法。
如果你想通過閱讀有所收獲，而不是消遣時間，你的閱讀就應該是積極的。對於你所閱讀的內容，你不可能看一遍就能夠理解。如果隻是為了娛樂，你可以輕鬆地閱讀一本書，這不會造成什麽損失。然而，一本思想豐富、內容優美的書，一本試圖提出問題並解決基本問題的書，是要求你盡力去積極閱讀的。當你讀完一本書後，如果書上寫滿了批注，你就知道自己曾積極地閱讀過這本書。
然而，你也許要問，寫批注是必要的嗎？其實，親自寫下單詞和句子能夠讓你把它們記得更清楚。在閱讀時，把對自己重要的單詞和句子的感覺以及疑問記錄下來，這樣能夠使你記住那些感覺，並使那些疑問在大腦中的印象變得更加深刻。
即使你寫在便條上之後又丟棄了，你仍然能夠更加牢固地掌握這本書的內容。然而，你不一定非要把紙扔掉，書頁邊的空白（書頁的上邊、下邊和兩側）、書後的空白頁以及行與行之間的空隙並非神聖不可碰觸，你可以利用這些地方寫批注。這樣做最大的好處就是：你所作的標注就會成為書的一部分，並永遠地留在上麵。即使一年之後拿出來，書頁上仍然可以看見你寫下的讚同、異議、疑問以及需要進一步深究的問題。這就像能夠接著上次的話題重新開始被中斷的對話。
讀書就應該如此，它應該是你與作者的一場交流。對於書中談論的話題，作者所了解的應該比你要多，因此，在接觸作者的時候，你自然要做到適當的謙虛。有些人說，讀者隻是處於接收的地位，切勿聽信這種觀點。理解是一個互動的過程，學習並不是把能找到的東西都裝進空瓶子，學習者必須向自己和老師發問。一旦他理解了老師所講的內容，他甚至會與老師進行辯論。在書上寫批注，實際上就是對作者的觀點提出不同的觀點或表示讚同。
1.Full ownership____only when you have made it a____of yo urself,and the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing____it.An illustration may make the____clear.You buy a beefstea k and transfer it____the butcher's icebox to your own.
2.But you____ask,why is writing necessary?Well,the physic al____of writing,with your own hand,brings____,and senten ces more sharply before your____and protrayes them better in your memory.
1.人們可以通過兩種方式擁有一本書。
2.如果你想通過閱讀有所收獲，而不是消遣時間，你的閱讀就應該是積極的。
3.即使你寫在便條上之後又丟棄了，你仍然能夠更加牢固地掌握這本書的內容。
1.I want to persuade you to do something equally important in the c ourse of your reading.
persuade sb.to do sth.：勸說；說服某人幹某事
2.You buy a beefsteak and transfer it from the butcher' s icebox t o your own.
transfer from：從……調動