There are too much things to do, reading or not, in a word, the space should be quiet and pure, no noisy, the rain has already established a gentle atmosphere so no music need temporarily.

有太多的事情可做，读书或者不读，总之，空间应是安静的单纯的，不需要喧嚣，雨声给我的感觉本来就非常好了，暂时不需要音乐。

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Most of them are not reading long articles or books that explore deep themes and require critical thinking and reflection.

他们中的大多数人都不阅读那些探索深层主题、需要批判性思考和反思的长篇文章或书籍。

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"There's a common belief that reading literature is frivolous, or not practical," Mar said.

“人们普遍认为阅读文学作品是轻浮的，或者是不切实际的。”马尔说。

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Historically, it has not been pleasure or wit or beauty that has been associated with the experience of reading Milton.

一直以来，人们阅读米尔顿作品的时候,感受到的都不是愉悦，机智，或者美好。

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By watching how the market trades at or even a bit below the prior lows, one can often get an early reading as to whether or not the lows will hold.

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It's not the old style stereotype of someone who's reading comic books and avoiding sports or not caring about sports, it's someone who's reading comic books while they're watching sports.

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These guys seemed to know everything, the whole vo-cabulary of worldly gain and progress, so I paid extra attention during their memoir-brainstorming sessions, listened closely to their debates over how much the reading public did or did not need to know about their tortured childhoods in order to understand why they needed to make so much money in the manner in which they made it.

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