For reading, if you are really curious about some of this early history, I can recommend this book. It is "Mendeleev's Dream."

关于阅读，如果你们真的对,早期的历史很感兴趣的话，我向你们推荐这本书，叫做门捷列夫的梦想“

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The text into which any early modern seventeenth-century writer would jot his or her thoughts into, his reading notes, was always called a commonplace book.

他的阅读笔记,那是许多早期的十七世纪现代作家都会深深思考的笔记，它常常被称为一本普通的书。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In this case, this is one of the articles, in fact this was today's reading, I got here a little early so it was this particular article was assigned for today and-- but what shows up when you click on the initial tab is just the abstract of the article not the whole article itself.

例如这是其中一篇,实际上这是今天的资料,我今天到的比较早,所以把它放了上去,这是今天布置的文章,但当你们点击初始的按键时,只能看到文章的摘要而不是全文

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In a little scene from the early English history that Milton had selected from his reading, you have an image of silencing, of a horrifying and unredeemable speechlessness that is so closely connected to virginity.

早期英国文学中的一个小场景,那是弥尔顿从他的阅读中选出的，你们，对于可怕的不可挽回的哑口无言有种寂静感,这与童贞紧密相连。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选