The shelf was full of the sort of books I like to read.

书架上摆满了我喜欢读的那种书。

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Menand notes, "the great books are read because they have been read"—they form a sort of social glue.

梅南德指出，“伟大的作品被人阅读，是因为已经被读过”——它们形成了一种社会凝聚力。

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They have studied these books and known how to sort the rubbish.

他们学习了这些书，知道如何分类垃圾。

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Sometimes we refer to them as "great books"-- in other words, the sort of text that speaks, or we feel as though it's speaking, to all places and times.

有时我们把这些称作为“伟大的书“,也就是说，在各个时空都有影响力的那些作品。

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And the other books are, in their own way, sort of classics that you'll enjoy.

其他的书,从他们本身角度来讲,算是一种你们会喜欢的经典

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Furthermore it would seem that the study of the great books or great thinkers of the past can easily degenerate into a kind of antiquarianism into a sort of pedantry.

更甚之,研究这些巨著或,过往的伟大思想家,更可能轻易地降格为古物癖,或是卖弄学问。

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Without due diligence, though, "bad books just sort of sift in, like dust, " said Mr. McMurtry, who purges his collection at least once a year.

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On the home front, a house-cleaning robot is much desired, as is a searching contraption that would find lost keys and books--sort of like Google, but for the physical world.

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Through thousands of pages of newspaper columns, a novel, a couple of history books and a sort-of memoir runs a thread of ideas that make Mr Johnson an unlikely favourite for grassroots conservatives.

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