当他们画画和缝纫时，他读书给他们听。

He read to them while they drew and sewed.

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他读书的时候，他的太太在织毛衣。

He was reading a book and he wife was making sweater.

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他读书读烦了，于是想方设法地寻找业余爱好。

He struggled to find a hobby, having burned out on reading.

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It's possible that in merely reading and in merely amassing more and more knowledge, Milton's doing little more than the unprofitable servant in Matthew 25.

弥尔顿不可能,仅仅读书和积累知识，他所做的就像,马修25中的那个无益的仆人所做的一样。

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He seems to have been doing nothing but reading, acquiring more knowledge and really essentially just learning for the sake of learning.

他好像除了读书，掌握更多的知识以及,单纯学习之外什么也不做。

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He says: It had only been through books, at best no more than vicarious cultural transfusions, that I had managed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.

并加以思索，他说，：,“唯有通过读书，这种让文化在我心中产生共鸣的方式,才能维系我生存的勇气。

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