When you factor out the amount of time spent thinking through complex and unfamiliar concepts-a rarity when people read for pleasure-reading is an appallingly mechanical process.

抛开用在思考复杂和陌生概念上的时间不谈——休闲阅读中很少出现这一情况——阅读意外地成为一种机械过程。

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For me, I think people at first should read as more books as possible, when they start to choose the major, then they should read selectively, so they can have more time to study a book.

对于我来说，我觉得人们一开始应该尽可能地多读书，当他们开始选择专业的时候，他们应该有选择性的读书，这样他们就会有更多的时间来研究书本。

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When people don't have time to read a report, they sometimes ask their assistants to outline the most important ideas.

当人们没有时间读报告的时候，他们常常让助理概述最主要的地方。

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Gates still adopts personas, but they're more often modeled after historic black characters like South Carolina slave potter Dave Drake, who famously wrote poems on the shoulders of his pots at a time when black people were forbidden to read.

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