双语阅读：比尔_茨夏季读书清单推荐.pdf

智 课 网 雅 思 备 考 资 料 双语阅读：比尔・盖茨夏季读书清单推荐 Last year, there was only one book on my summer reading list that you could reasonably call a beach read. This year I tried to pick a few more things that are on the lighter side. Each of these books made me think or laugh or, in some cases, do both. I hope you find something to your liking here. And if it’s not summer where you live, this list will still be here six months from now… 去年，在我的夏季读书清单中你只能找到一本读起来还算是轻松的 。今年，我努力多挑了几本简单点的。这些书要么能让我认真思考要么 能让我放声大笑，有时两者兼有。我希望在这里你能找到一些你喜欢的 。如果你所生活的地方还没到夏天，那你还有六个月的时间来看这份清 单…… Hyperbole and a Half, by Allie Brosh. 《夸张和一半》，作者：阿莉·布洛什 The book, based on Brosh’s wildly popular website, consists of brief vignettes and comic drawings about her young life. The adventures she recounts are mostly inside her head, where we hear and see the kind of inner thoughts most of us are too timid to let out in public. 这本书的写作基础来源于布洛什十分受欢迎的网站，上面有大量简 短的插画和滑稽的漫画，描述的是她早年的生活。她所叙述的故事大多 都是刻在她脑海里的，从中我们能听到并明白她的内心想法。而这一点 ，我们大多数人往往过于羞涩而不敢将自己的内心想法向外界宣泄。 You will rip through it in three hours, tops. But you’ll wish it went on longer, because it’s funny and smart as hell. I must have interrupted Melinda a dozen times to read to her passages that made me laugh out loud. 这本书，最多三个小时你就能读完。但你会希望它再多讲一些，因 为这本书写得既幽默风趣又富有智慧。每当读到令我大笑不已的部分， 我总要打断梅琳达读给她听。 The Magic of Reality, by Richard Dawkins. 《现实的魔法 ：真相》，作者：克林顿·道金斯 Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford, has a gift for making science enjoyable. This book is as accessible as the TV series Cosmos is for younger audiences—and as relevant for older audiences. It’s an engaging, well-illustrated science textbook offering compelling answers to big questions, like “how did the universe form?” and “what causes earthquakes?” 道金森是牛津大学的教授 ，著名的演化生物学家。在他的笔下 ，科 学变得生动有趣。这本书就同科学纪录片 《宇宙时空之旅》那样好理解 ，老少皆宜。这是一本十分引人入胜、配图精彩的科学手册 ，对一些深 奥的问题给出了十分有力的回答 ，比如， “宇宙是如何形成的 ？”、“ 什么引发的