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.
读书是一种精神的享受,有点类似体育运动:善于读书的人需要拥有强烈的渴望,渊博的学识和敏捷的反应。阅读是有趣的,不是因为作者在告诉你什么,而是因为它让你的大脑运转。
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。你的经验,与他的相比,带给你相同或不同的结论,你自己的想法随着你对他的理解而发展。