《How to Read a Book》Ⅱ

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The Reading of "Reading"

One of the primary rules for reading anything is to spot the most important words the author uses. Spotting them is not enough, however.You have to know how they are beingused. Finding an important word merely begins the more difficult research for the meanings, one or more, common or special, which the word is used to convey as it appears here and there in the text.

spot: to notice someone or something, especially when they are difficult to see or recognize. 发现，注意到，认出。

人们看文章常常关注它的内容、情节、整体，往往忽略其中的某个句子以及某个词。一篇美文里总有那么些字词用得恰到好处，成为点睛之笔，让人觉得换之失韵，弃之可惜。我国古代诗人仅用寥寥数字就能创作出不朽佳作，令人可敬，可叹，而不可及。

例如，“春风又绿江南岸”中的“绿”。传说王安石曾用过“入”、“到”、“满”等词，但都觉得只表达了春风的到来，并没有展现出春风过境后的景象，只有这个“绿”字，形容词用作动词，从而把看不见的春风转化成一片新绿的视觉形象。

春风又“绿”江南岸

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Reading a book on how to play tennis may not sufficient to make you perceive from the side lines the various shades of skill in playing. If you stay on the side lines, you will never know how it feels to play better or worse. Similarly, you have to put the rules of reading into practice before you are really able to understand them and competent to judge your own accomplishment or that of others. 

书要怎样读，自古即是一个大话题。书本知识是“流”，实践才是知识的“源”。世上一切真知，都离不开实践。

宋代爱国诗人陆游，在《冬夜读书示子聿》诗中写道：“古人学问无遗力，少壮工夫老始成；纸上得来终觉浅，绝知此事要躬行。”早在古代，先人就认为，单靠书本知识是远远不够的，还必须注重实践，才能出真知。切勿像战国时的赵括那样“纸上谈兵”。

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