Starting a new book is a risk, just like falling in love. You have to commit to it. You open the pages knowing a little bit about it maybe, from the back or from a blurb on the front. But who knows, right? Those bits and pieces aren’t always right.
讀一本新書是一場冒險，就像墜入愛河。你得全力以赴。你翻開書頁，從扉頁簡介到封底，你知之甚少。但誰又知道呢？這些隻言片語也不一定對。
You start off slow. The story is beginning to unfold. You’re unsure. It’s a big commitment lugging this tome around. Maybe this book won’t be that great but you’ll feel guilty about putting it down.
你慢慢翻開書本，故事徐徐展開。你心存猶疑，閱讀這本巨著耗費巨大。也許這不是一部偉大的著作，但你不想半途而廢。
Maybe it’ll be so awful you’ll keep hate-reading or just set it down immediately and never pick it up again. Or maybe you’ll come back to it some night, drunk or lonely — needing something to fill the time, but it won’t be any better than it was when you first started reading it.
或許故事很糟糕，你不厭其煩，你甚至想要放棄，再也不讀它。又或許你會在某個獨孤或醉酒的夜晚重新拾起來，以便打發時光，但它并不比你第一次閱讀時更好。
Or something exciting could happen. Maybe this will become your new favorite book. That’s always a possibility right? That’s the beauty of risk. The reward could actually be worth it.
生活總會有新鮮的事情發生，你也許會碰到新的喜歡的書。一切皆有可能，不是嗎？這正是冒險的好處，回報物有所值。
How could you know you like the book? It is inside your soul. You just want more of the story. You want to keep reading, maybe everything this author’s ever written. You wish it would never end. The closer it gets to the smaller side of the pages, the slower you read, wanting to savor it all.
怎麼知道你喜歡一本書呢？它在你的靈魂深處。你會想要更多的故事，你想要繼續閱讀，甚至閱讀這位作者以往的全部作品。你希望故事永不結束。書越往後翻，你閱讀得越慢，你想要細細地品味全部。
This book is now one of your favorites forever. You will always wish you could go back to never having read it and pick it up fresh again, but also you know you’re better for having this close, inside you, covering your heart and mind.
現在，這本書無疑是你的最愛了。你希望回到之前從未讀過的狀态，再次讀起時依然新鮮如初。你已明白，你跟它親密無間，它已進入你的内心，覆寫你的靈魂，你也變得更加美好。
[玫瑰]Once you get in deep enough, you know you could never put this book down.
曾經至情至深，你就會明白永遠也不會再放下這本書。
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