在这一节的内容中，我们将要学习英国著名的女作家Virginia Woolf 的散文——How should one read a book?（《如何去读一本书？》）。在我们一生的学习生涯中，如何去读书是很多人都会关心的问题，那么一个人到底应该如何去读书以及读什么样的书呢？作者认为一个人读书需要遵循自己的内心，要有自己的独立自主性去看待别人的观点。 这篇文章对读书的过程的解读是极为细致的、深入的、合理的，希望我们每一个人都真正学会如何读书。
In the first place, I want to emphasize the note of interrogation at the end of my title. Even if I could answer the question for myself, the answer would apply only to me and not to you. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. If this is agreed between us, then I feel at liberty to put forward a few ideas and suggestions because you will not allow them to fetter that independence which is the most important quality that a reader can possess. After all, what laws can be laid down about books? The battle of Waterloo was certainly fought on a certain day; but is Hamlet a better play than Lear? Nobody can say. Each must decide that question for himself. To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place on what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions—there we have none.
▍生词好句
the note of interrogation: 本节可理解为“问号”
instinct: n. 本能；直觉
reason: n. 理性
fetter: vt. 束缚；加脚镣
law: n. 定律；法则
sanctuary: n. 避难所
be bound by: 受……约束
convention: n. 习俗；世俗
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