"I used to hate reading," Brandon remembers, "but then I'd see the faces of people when we were giving them boxes of books."

“我曾经讨厌阅读，”布兰登回忆说，“但后来当我们给别人送去成箱的书时，我看到了那些人的表情。”

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Those books, both prose and verse, were consecrated to me by other associations; and I hate to have them debased and profaned in his mouth!

这些书，包括散文和诗，都由于一些别的联想，因此对于我是神圣不可侵犯的；我极不愿意这些书在他的口里被败坏亵渎！

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I hate to see books being mistreated.

我看见别人糟蹋书就感到讨厌。

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