huntingfishing:2.我们为什么要阅读,它有怎样的力量?
There is a place shaped by a powerful history. (shaped by 影响)
Uplift v.鼓励、激励
Relate to 与……有关
Reveal the strength of one’s heart 表现一个人内心的强大
Reading charged his inner life with mystery, with imagination, with beauty. Reading gave him images that gave him joy: mountain, ocean, deer, frost. Words that taste of a free, natural world. Reading gave him a language for what he had lost.
读书使他的内心世界充满神秘、想象力和美好的事物,读书给予他欢乐的画面:深山、大海、小鹿、秋霜。给予他体验自由自在的大自然的文字,读书给予他倾述所失去的东西的语言。