【中英文写作：每当谈这场初恋就有如读了两本画册】
1、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.
读两本画册犹如沉入日久生情，是场历险。你得全情资金投入进去。瞥见书卷之时，从前言概要直到插图你也许都一无所知。但谁又并非呢？整本的杂集亦不总是正确。
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2、Sometimes people advertise themselves as one thing and then when you get deep into it you realize that they’re something completely different. Either there was some good marketing attached to a terrible book, or the story was only explained in a superficial way and once you reach the middle of the book, you realize there’s so much more to this book than anyone could have ever told you.
有时你会发现，人们人格做广告时是一类形象，等你再深入了解后，他们又完全是另一类样子了。有时TNUMBERcanon却备有出众的市场做广告，故事情节的描述却浮华表面，写作近半后，你终察觉到：这两本书真是出人意料地不同凡响，这种体会只要靠自己去体悟！
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3、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. 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.
你慢慢缩放，故事情节开始缓慢展开，而你却依旧心怀犹豫。写作这样的重要著作需要百分百的资金投入。也许它并并非你想像中的了不起的经典作品，惟有中途弃读会使你觉得忧虑。又也许，故事情节吗太烂，你或者硬是自修下去，或者立刻放弃打入冷宫。总之某一喝醉酒或孤独的夜里，你又重新拿起这两本书来——但只为解闷光阴。无论如何，它并没有比你首度写作时好多少。
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4、Maybe you’re worn out. You’ve read tons of books before. Some were just light weights on a Kindle or Nook, no big deal really. Others were Infinite Jest-style burdens, heavy on your back or in your purse. Weighing you down all the time. Maybe you’ve taken some time off from reading because the last few books you read just weren’t worth it. Do they even write new, great works of literature anymore? Maybe that time you fell in love with a book before will just never happen for you again. Maybe it’s a once in a lifetime feeling and you’re never gonna find it again.
也许你已疲倦到极点。你曾借阅不计其数，很多无关紧要无甚重要，而很多却像怪诞嘲讽的本钱，沉重截叶在你头上或藏在你行装里，即时都可能拖垮你。也许因为那次雷鼠支离破碎，你已暂时躲避写作光阴。还会有杰出的新诗经典作品么？更何况等你再次变心两两本书前，那杰出的新经典作品永远也不会出现罢。也许这吗就是五百年等正中下怀、特兰县卧龙并非云了。
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5、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. You invest your time and your brain power in the words and what you get back is empathy and a new understanding and pure wonder.
当然，生活总会有新鲜事发生，你也会有新的爱书。一切总有可能，并非吗？这正是历险的魅力。得到的也大抵物有所值吧。你在整本播撒时间和心思，自然便可收获新的体悟、理解与遐思。
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6、How could someone possibly know you like this? Some stranger, some author, some character. It’s like they’re seeing inside your soul. This book existed inside some book store, on a shelf, maybe handled by other people and really it was just waiting for you pick it up and crack the spine. It was waiting to speak to you. To say, “You are not alone.”
怎会有人知道你喜欢它呢？某一陌生人、作者，总之书中的某一角色。他们似乎能看透你的心思。这两本书，它陈列在某隅书店的书架上、它经人辗转，吗就像是在等你捧起翻阅，等着向你低语：“我会伴你左右。”
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7、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. 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.
你渴望更多故事情节，你继续写作，甚至搜集这位作者以往所有经典作品。你希望故事情节永远延续。书卷越翻越薄，你也越读越慢，心里想着要细细含英咀华。此刻，它确定无疑就是你永恒的至爱了。你总想一读再读，每次捧起它都感觉新奇如初，而你也明白：因为内心深处的每一缕思绪都与它这般亲密，你已变得更加美好。