He does a great deal else in this book, but I'm isolating this point, which is what's relevant to what we're talking about.

他在书里还讲了很多别的东西，但我要把这点单拎出来，因为只有这一点和我们要讨论的相关。

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"Books are our friends," he added "If you return to a book you've read many times, you'll feel like talking with an old friend."

“书是我们的朋友，”他补充说道，“如果你看一本读过很多次的书，你会感觉像和一位老朋友聊天。”

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My book knowledge fell by the wayside as I thought about the basics of getting around, reading emails and talking with my classmates, I was often nervous at school, worried about whether the teachers would call on me in class and whether I'd understand their questions.

我一开始思考出行、阅读电子邮件和与同学交谈时，就会把书本知识置之脑后。我在学校里时常感到紧张，担心老师会不会在课上点我，担心自己能否理解老师的问题。

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