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下面几本书我都看过，一开始目的是为了学英语嘛，看着看着就完全投入进去了，寓学于乐，也没想会产生多大效果，但是看完之后真的感觉不一样了，听力口语还有写作都有很大进步，我也是有边看书边做笔记的习惯。 果然学好一门语言，多看相应语言的书是很有帮助的，希望大家也能有耐心看完这些。 （书籍转载自豆瓣小站：https://site.douban.com/143903/） 1. The Lord of the Rings, Author: J. R. R. Tolkien 《指环王》，作者：约翰.罗纳尔多.鲁埃尔. 托尔金 Although this series has become even more famous after being filmed, it's fair to say that the tale of Middle Earth is an ingenious work of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. It reaches deep inside of us and plays on our imagination, wishes and inspiration. 尽管魔戒系列在拍成电影后更加有名了，不得不说这个中土传说是托尔金的天才之作。它触及了我们的内心深处，激发了我们的想象，愿望和灵感。 The story of one little hobbit named Frodo Baggins succeeding where immortal elves or noble kings have failed gives us a very truthful message that literally nothing is impossible. Tolkien did a wonderful job in creating a living world and it will take a long time before his legacy is forgotten - if it will ever come to that. 这个故事讲述了一个叫弗罗多巴金斯的霍比特小矮人做到了精灵或者国王都没能做到的事，给我们的启示就是，没有什么是不可能的。托尔金创建的这个精彩的中土世界，人们即使过了很长时间都不会忘了它 - 如果有一天真的会忘的话。 2. Dream of the Red Chamber, Author: Cao Xueqin 《红楼梦》，作者：曹雪芹 Let's not forget that China is indeed a big country and consequently, so being successful on the Chinese market has its charms. Although I personally never heard about this book in particular before, the numbers do not lie and over one hundred million sold copies seized the second place in our list. 别忘了中国是个大国，《红楼梦》在中国市场上如此的成功自有它的魅力。尽管我个人之前从没听说过这本书，数字是不会骗人的，1亿多本的销量使它排在第二的位置。 Dream of the Red Chamber is one of the Four Great Classical Novels, as they call them in China. It depicts traditional Chinese cuisine, mythology, proverbs etc. It is based on the author's own experience with the Chinese aristocracy in the 18th century. 红楼梦是中国四大名著之一， 它描述了中国传统的饮食，神话，格言等等。是18世纪作者根据自己在贵族社会的经历而写成的。 3. And Then There Were None，Author: Agatha Christie 《无人生还》，作者：阿加莎 克里斯蒂 It's hardly a surprise that Agatha Christie as one of the best authors of detective novels out there made it to our top ten books list. She is well known for her excellent plots and surprising endings. She created a bit of a fuss by originally calling this book "Ten Little Niggers" - the name was changed to the current And Then There Were None so that it is not offensive towards Afro-Americans. 作为最好的侦探小说家之一的阿加莎克里斯蒂，她的书在我们前十的名单中并不意外。她的书以优秀的情节和意外的结局而闻名。 该书最初的名字叫《十个小黑人》，这给她带来了些麻烦。- 后来书名改成了《无人生还》,这样就不会有冒犯非裔美国人之嫌了。（译者注：Niggers在美国黑人中是个非常忌讳的词） And what's going on in this book? Simply put, ten people of different social classes are invited to an island where they are accused of murders and they start dying, one by one - but you'll have to read it yourself, we all know it's a bad idea to talk about plots too much when it comes to detective stories. 这本书到底讲了什么？简单的说，就是10个来自不同阶层的人被邀请到一个岛上，在那里，他们被指控谋杀，开始一个一个的死去 - 你得自己去看，讨论过多的情节对侦探小说来说可不是个好主意，你懂得。 4.The Alchemist, Author: Paulo Coelho 《炼金术师》，作者：保罗 科埃略 "When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it". I don't know how does the original in Portugese sound, so the translation will have to suffice. The point is that Paulo Coelho tells us that if you want something real badly, you shall have it. “如果你想要什么， 整个宇宙都会帮你得到”。我不知道在葡萄牙原话是怎么说的，但基本上就是这个意思。重点是，保罗科埃略告诉我们，如果你真的十分想要某样东西，你应该拥有它。 The Alchemist tells a story of a young shepherd boy who overcomes love and danger on his quest for a treasure. Apparently, the story is so good that it had to be translated into 67 languages and breaking a Guiness record in translations for a living author. 《炼金术师》讲述了一个牧羊男孩克服了爱情和危险去探寻宝藏的故事，很显然，这个故事非常的棒以至于被翻译成了67种语言，也创造了现世作家作品被翻译的吉尼斯纪录。 What might especially young people find very appealing is that Paulo Coelho encourages people to use peer to peer networks, because he perfectly understands that people are honest and they will pay for good work - eventually. 保罗 科埃略鼓励人们使用p2p网络技术，因为他完全相信人们是诚实的，他们最终会用在好好工作上，对于年轻人来说，这点让他显得更加有魅力。 5.Think and Grow Rich, Author: Napoleon Hill 《思考致富》，作者：拿破仑·希尔 There are tons of motivational books these days. Some are better, some are worse and it's up to you to choose the one that can really help you. Think and Grow Rich is probably a safe bet, because it takes a bit of ingenuity to write something everybody knows these days - only 70 years ahead. 如今，励志书数不胜数，有好有坏，选择一本对你有用的完全取决于你自己。 《思考致富》可能是比较靠谱的选择，因为它天才般的把目前大家都知道的东西写了出来 - 只是提早了70年而已。 The best way how to become successful is to find out what others did before success came to them - and that's exactly what Napoleon Hill did. According to his mentor's (A. Carnegie) advice, he studied the life paths of 16 wealthy individuals and pointed out their steps to victory. 成功最好的方式是知道别人是如何成功的 - 拿破仑就是这么做的。根据导师的建议，他研究了16个成功人士的生活道路并得出了他们的成功方式。 If you're looking for personal development tools, Think and Grow Rich should be on the top of your priorities. 如果你在寻求个人发展工具，《思考致富》应该是你的首选。