He goes to the library and makes a pretence of reading some Thoreau.

他去图书馆假装读梭罗的书。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

He will say things like "I was in the White House library reading the Journal of Finance, and there's some really interesting thinking about the role of dividends in the system."

他会说一些话，比如：“我在白宫图书馆读了一期《金融杂志》，里面有一些想法非常有意思，说的是股息在金融体系的角色。”

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He was reading the plays of Shakespeare when I met him in the library the other day.

前几天我在图书馆遇见他时，他正在阅读莎士比亚的戏剧。

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In the summer of 1983, Mr Dodge, who was once arrested for cutting down telephone poles, was reading in a Maine library when he found an 1825 copy of the Constitution.

ECONOMIST: Unlucky for some

Though Whitman loved reading, he was not a bookish man, and he did not possess a large library.

ECONOMIST: American poets