拓展模块U11 课文-2 只读版 How to mark a book 怎样在书上做标记

拓展模块U11课文-2只读版How to Mark a Book?怎样在书上做标记

How to Mark a Book?

1. 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.

2. You shouldn't mark up a book which isn't yours. Librarians(or your friends) who lend you books expect you to keep them clean,and you should.If you believe that marking books is usefull and decide to do it,you will have to buy them.

3. There are two ways in which one can own a book.The first is the property 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 possession.Full 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.An illustration 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 beefsteak 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 bloodstream to do you any good.

4. There are three kinds of book owners.The first has all the standard sets best sellers——unread, untouched. (This individual owns wood 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 physical appearance.)The 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.

5. Why is marking up a book in dispensable to reading? First, it keeps you awake.(And I don't mean merely conscious, I mean wide awake.)In the second place, reading, if it is active, is thinking, and thinking tends to express itself in words,spoken or written.The marked book is usually the thought-through book.Finally, writing helps you remember the thoughts you had, or the thoughts the author expressed.

6. If reading is to accomplish anything more than passing time, it must be active.You can't let your eyes glide across the lines of the book and come up with an understanding of what you have read.Now,an ordinary piece of light fiction, like, say, Gone with the Wind, doesn't require the most active kind of reading.The book you read for pleasure can 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 of which you are capable.

怎样在书上做标记

1．大家都知道要真正读出点东西的话，就必须在字里行间中阅读。在你阅读的过程中我想说服你去做一件同样重要的事。

2．你不应该在不属于你的书上做标记。借给你书的图书管理员（或你的朋友）希望你保持图书的干净，你应该做到。如果你认为给书做标记是有用的并决定这样做，那你就必须去买书。

3．有两种办法可以使你拥有图书。第一种是通过花钱获得所有权，就像你花钱购买衣服和家具一样。不过这种购书行为只是拥有的序曲。只有当你使图书成为你的一部分时，才算完全拥有，而使你成为图书的一部分的最好办法是通过在上面书写。打个比方可以把这个观点说清楚。你买了一块牛排并且从屠夫的冰箱里转移到你的冰箱。但是，在你吃掉它并把它融进你的血液之前，从真正的意义上讲，你并不真正拥有它。我的意思是：书也同样必须吸收在你的血液里，这才对你有好处。

4．有三种书籍拥有者中第一种人拥有所有标准的套书和畅销书——从未读过、 碰过（这样的人拥有的是纸浆和油墨，不是书）。第二种人有很多书，只有少数几本读完，大部分只是翻了翻，可是所有的书都干净铮亮，和买来那天的样子一模一样（这种人可能愿意让书成为自己的，但是却受到对书籍的外观的错误尊敬的制约）。第三种人有几本，或有不少——每本书页都折角或残缺了，由于不断阅读而松散、脱页了，从头到尾都做了标记和涂写过。

5．为什么给书做标记是阅读过程必不可少的？首先，会让你清醒（我的意思是不仅仅清醒，而是精神着呢）。其次，如果是积极的，阅读就是思考，这种思考有想要用语言——口头的或书面的——表达的趋向。做过标记的书通常是经过思考的。最后，书写帮助你记住你有过的思想，或者作者表达的思想。

6．如果阅读不只是为了消磨时间而是要获得点东西，那这种阅读应该是积极的。你不能让你的眼睛匆匆扫过而就会理解你所读过的内容。一部轻松的小说，就像《飘》，不要求最积极的阅读。为了消遣而阅读的书，可以在放松的状态下阅读，而不会有任何损失。但是一部伟大的著作，有着丰富的思想和优美的语言，一部提出并试图回答重大而基本问题的书，就要求你以最积极的态度去阅读，这点你是能做到的。