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Adventures Among Books
책 속의 모험
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Adventures Among Books is a work by Andrew Lang. In ReadGem you can read the English original beside a translation in your own language, one sentence at a time.
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“Of the Essays in this volume "Adventures among Books," and "Rab's Friend," appeared in Scribner's Magazine; and "Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson" (to the best of the author's memory) in The North American Review.”
Adventures Among Books · Andrew Lang
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The English original with a Korean translation, one sentence at a time. In the app you can pick from 21 languages.
In an age of reminiscences, is there room for the confessions of a veteran, who remembers a great deal about books and very little about people?
회상이 만연한 시대에, 책에 대해서는 많은 것을 기억하지만 사람들에 대해서는 거의 기억하지 못하는 참전 용사의 고백이 설 자리가 있겠습니까?
I have often wondered that a Biographia Literaria has so seldom been attempted--a biography or autobiography of a man in his relations with other minds.
나는 종종 다른 사람들과의 관계 속에서 한 사람의 전기나 자서전을 쓰려는 시도가 왜 이렇게 드물었는지 궁금해했습니다.
Coleridge, to be sure, gave this name to a work of his, but he wandered from his apparent purpose into a world of alien disquisitions.
콜리지는 확실히 자신의 작품에 이 이름을 붙였지만, 그는 겉으로 보이는 목적에서 벗어나 낯선 논의의 세계로 빠져들었습니다.
The following pages are frankly bookish, and to the bookish only do they appeal.
다음 페이지들은 솔직히 책 같은 내용이라서 책벌레들에게만 매력적으로 다가올 것입니다.
The habit of reading has been praised as a virtue, and has been denounced as a vice.
독서 습관은 미덕으로 칭찬받기도 하고 악덕으로 비난받기도 했습니다.
In no case, if we except the perpetual study of newspapers (which cannot fairly be called reading), is the vice, or the virtue, common.
신문을 끊임없이 읽는 것(이것은 독서라고 부를 수 없지만)을 제외하고는 어떤 경우에도 악덕이나 미덕이 흔한 것은 아닙니다.
It is more innocent than opium-eating, though, like opium-eating, it unlocks to us artificial paradises.
그것은 아편을 먹는 것보다 더 순진하지만, 아편을 먹는 것과 마찬가지로 우리에게 인공적인 낙원을 열어줍니다.
I try to say what I have found in books, what distractions from the world, what teaching (not much), and what consolations.
나는 책에서 발견한 것, 세상의 번거로움, 가르침(많지는 않지만), 그리고 위로가 되는 것들을 말하려고 노력합니다.
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Book details
- Title
- Adventures Among Books (책 속의 모험)
- Author
- Andrew Lang
- Original language
- English
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- 21 languages
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