当我进入房间时，我发现他在读书。

When I entered the room, I found him reading.

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他在读书，我在写字。

While he was reading, Iwas writing.

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他在读书，我在写字。

While he was reading, I was writing.

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He says: It had only been through books, at best no more than vicarious cultural transfusions, that I had managed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.

并加以思索，他说，：,“唯有通过读书，这种让文化在我心中产生共鸣的方式,才能维系我生存的勇气。

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Reading for him is a way of accessing feeling and that's the kind of reading that he wants from us, from the people who read his book.

对他来说，读书是获得感觉的方式,同时，他也是在向我们，灌输一种他的读书观念。

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