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1.light up面露喜色
She was relieved to see his face light up with a boyish grin.
看到他脸上现出孩子气的笑容，她总算松了口气。
2.check out检查
Maybe we ought to go down to the library and check it out...
或许我们应该去趟图书馆，查个明白。
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n. 屏，幕，银幕，屏风
v. 放映，选拔，掩
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- I was always a reader. As a kid, I walked to the library several times a week and stayed up late reading with a flashlight.
- 我一直都喜欢读书。小时候，我每周都会去好几次图书馆，拿着手电筒熬夜看书。
- I checked out so many books and returned them so quickly the librarian once snapped,
- 我借的书很多，还的也快，有一次图书管理员就怒了，
- "Don't take home so many books if you're not going to read them all."
- “如果你不能读完的话，就别带这么多书回家。”
- "But I did read them all," I said. I was an English major in college and went on to get a master's in literature.
- 我说，“但是我都看完了。”我在大学主修英语，后来又获得了文学硕士学位。
- When I created my online dating profile, I made my screen name "missbibliophile52598."
- 当我创建我的网上约会档案时，我把我的网名设为“missbibliophile52598”。
- Filling out the "favorite books" section, I let my taste in literature speak for me:
- 在填写最爱的书时，我让我的文学品味为我说话：
- One Hundred Years of Solitude, A Moveable Feast, White Teeth, The Namesake, The Known World, The God of Small Things, How to Read the Air.
- 《百年孤独》，《流动的盛宴》，《白牙》，《同名人》，《已知的世界》，《微物之神》，《如何阅读空气》。
- But I realized it had been more than two years since I had read most of those titles.
- 但我意识到，我已经有两年多没有读过这些书了。
- I had stopped reading gradually, the way one heals or dies. I tried to maintain my bookish persona.
- 我逐渐停止了阅读，这是一种疗伤或死亡的方式。我努力保持我书生气的一面。
- I joined book clubs that I never attended. I requested a library book everyone was reading, only to return it a week late, unread, with fines.
- 我加入了读书俱乐部，但从未参加。我向图书馆借了一本所有人都在看的书，但没读过就还了，迟了一周还要交罚款。
- I still loved the idea of reading. I treasured books and bookstores.
- 我仍然喜欢阅读的想法。我视图书和书店为珍宝。
- Whenever I found one, I would linger between the shelves for hours
- 每当我发现喜欢的图书时，我会在书架之间徘徊数小时，
- as if catching up with old friends, picking out volumes I had read and buying new ones.
- 就好像和老朋友叙旧一样，挑出我读过的书，再买些新书。
- But it was clear to me: I was becoming a person I did not know.
- 但我很明白：我成为了一个我不认识的人。
- David was my first online date. His profile said he liked to read,
- 大卫是我第一位网络约会对象。他的资料上说他喜欢阅读，
- so I asked him about his last book. His face lit up and his fingers danced.
- 所以我向他询问他上一本书。他的脸容光焕发，手指舞动起来。
- David read much more than I did, about a book or two a week.
- 大卫比我读的书要多得多，他每周要读一两本书。
- We seemed an unlikely couple: me, a five-foot-three black woman born to a Caribbean mother, and him, a six-foot-four white guy from Ohio.
- 我们似乎不太像是一对：我是一个五英尺三英寸的黑人妇女，母亲是加勒比人。而他是身高六英尺四英寸的白人，来自俄亥俄州。
- But as we got to know each other, our shared faith and mutual love of books bridged our gaps.
- 但是随着我们增进对彼此的了解，我们共同的信仰和对书籍的热爱架起了桥梁。
- When we compared libraries, we had only four titles in common.
- 当我们对比书目时，我们只有个共同点。
- David preferred history and nonfiction, whereas I gravitated toward fiction writers of color and immigrant narratives.
- 大卫更喜欢历史和非虚构类作品，而我则倾向于有色人种和移民题材的小说。
- On our seventh date, David and I visited the library. "I have a game," he said, pulling two pens and Postits out of his bag.
- 第七次约会时，大卫和我去了图书馆。他说，“我会一个游戏。”他从包里拿出两支笔和一张照片。
- "Let's find books we've read and leave reviews in them for the next person." We wandered the aisles for an hour.
- “让我们找到我们读过的书，并把评论留给下一个人。我们在过道里漫步了一个小时。
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