阅读书籍要比叙述其内容省力。

The book is more easily read than described.

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作者声称，如果我们不再阅读书籍和更长的文章，这将是一个巨大的损失。

The author claims that it will be a great loss if we no longer read books and longer articles.

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收集原始资料，即阅读书籍和做笔记，很像写一篇普通文章前的头脑风暴过程。

Collecting raw material, which is reading books and taking notes, is very much like the process of brainstorming at the prewriting stage of an ordinary essay.

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That's what you learn, Hobbes believes, from the reading of Aristotle and the Greeks and Romans, regicide, that the only legitimate form of government is a republic and that it is a lawful and even it's your duty to kill your king.

唯一合法的政府应当是共和政体的政府，而且弑君在一定意义上也应当是合法的,甚至那还有可能是你应尽的义务,这就是那些年轻人从阅读亚里士多德,和古希腊罗马书籍中学到的东西。

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and read books about music, study music.

阅读关于音乐的书籍，研究音乐。

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