We eat while watching TV, we munch on something at our desk at work, we crunch on something while driving and drink something while reading or waiting.

看电视时吃点小零食，工作时嘴里嚼嚼东西，开车时吃点东西，阅读或者等候时也会来点喝的。

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It's hard work, but while you are reading, you'll find that what once seemed like a duty is now a pleasure.

这是一项艰苦的工作，但当你阅读时，你会发现曾经被视为一种义务的事情现在变成了一种乐趣。

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Surely everyone reading this has had times when you lie in bed for hours, unable to fall asleep, because your brain is thinking about work.

所有读到这篇文章的人肯定都有过这样的经历：因为脑子在想着工作，躺在床上好几个小时都无法入睡。

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For example,you can see Spanish-born painter Pablo Picasso's colorful work "Reading at a Table."

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There are also all kinds of paradoxes and subtle puns and ironies, and in section where you'll be doing a lot of your close reading work, those are some of the things that will be drawn to your attention.

里面有各种悖论，微妙的双关语，明讥暗讽，在课上我们将会做很多精细的阅读，而那些就是你们应该注意的地方。

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So these are forms of the experience of reading fiction of which Iser disapproves because there's no work being done.

这就是那些阅读小说经历的形式,伊瑟尔不赞同这种形式，因为这种阅读没有任何成就。

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So when reading the work of an ideological opponent, try to do so with a sympathetic eye.

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Buchanan succeeded: scholars will still be reading his work a century from now.

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More than that, I aim to attract new readers by offering something of value that will hopefully engage them enough to continue reading my work.

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