Unit 10 A Debt to Dickens综合教程一.pptVIP

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Text II Memorable quotes Love me, love my dog. (Paragraph 3): If you love someone, you must accept everything about them, even their faults or weakness. This is a proverb similar in meaning to the Chinese saying “爱屋及乌”. And in the text, “ Love me, love my book” is the writer’s wise twist of the proverb to express his idea that true friends should cherish similar feelings about certain books. Text II Memorable quotes The book is a truer and higher bond of union. (Paragraph 3): The book joins one person and his / her friends together by offering a means of “talking” with and understanding each other through their favorite author. “Books,” said Hazlitt, “wind into the heart; the poet’s verse slides in the current of our blood. We read them when young, we remember them when old. We feel that it has happened to ourselves. They are to be had very cheap and good. We breathe but the air of books.” (Paragraph 4): In Hazlitt’s opinion, good books gradually gain our love and trust; the poet’s verse produces a surprisingly emotional effect on us without our conscious realization. Good books always appeal to us: we enjoy reading them in our youth and we maintain their noble ideas in our old age. We feel that the problems of people we meet in books are like our own. Books can be easily obtained and they express everlasting truth. We get the fullest possible value from what we read. Text II Memorable quotes Text II Memorable quotes A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; … (Paragraph 5): A good book preserves and exposes us to broad human values and wisdom of human civilization. If a tradition, right, etc. is enshrined in something, it is prese