But you don't need to go there to take the basic point, which is that it can take more brainpower - and creativity - to properly consume a good book than to do many more overtly "creative" things.

你不用到论文里寻找最根本的观点，从而说明阅读一本好书其实比做一些显然过于“有创造力”的东西耗费更多的脑力和创造力。

youdao

That is not, properly speaking, a dictionary but a grammar book.

严格地说，那不是一本字典，而是一本语法书。

youdao

This book is a continuous discourse, so that, properly speaking, there are no intervening events.

这本书是一个持续不断的话语，因此，正确地说，没有任何干预的活动。

youdao

Before getting properly under way, his book includes a selection of more or less unchanged reprints.

ECONOMIST: Communism

In his new book, Scalia argues interpreting laws and the Constitution properly requires a strict approach to look at the actual text of the law itself.

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