时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:英语作文


英语课

 Buying or Borrowing Books?


Books are close friends of humanity. They can arm us with knowledge and information we need to make success of life. Through books we can obtain skills and techniques for survival and development. Through books we can enlighten our spirits and live a fuller life. There are generally two ways in which we can have access to books: borrowing or buying. While millions are borrowing books, I still think buying them best suits me and gives me the greatest enjoyment 1.
Admittedly, there are a few merits for borrowing books. For one thing, borrowing books can save us huge amounts of money. And of course, with the money saved we can do other more worthy 2 things .And also, as we borrow books from the library and friends, we normally have deadline to finish them, and consequently we can read more books in a limited time. And we can, above all, better our efficiency of our reading, just as a famous Chinese saying goes, “books can not be read unless borrowed.”
However, some advantages for buying books are more obvious and compelling. One of them, definitely not shared by the choice of borrowing books, is the abundance of freedom that buying books can offer us. Since we can keep the books as long as we wish, we can read as much as we want. Another strength of owing books is that we can take whatever notes on the margin 3 of the pages of the books. And finally, the process of selecting and keeping books can be a great fun that borrowing books can by no means offer.
While borrowing books can, to some extent, quench 4 our thirst for knowledge, buying books gives us greater pleasure of selecting and keeping the best of the world treasure. Can we think of any thing else more delightful 5 and rewarding?

1 enjoyment
n.乐趣;享有;享用
  • Your company adds to the enjoyment of our visit. 有您的陪同,我们这次访问更加愉快了。
  • After each joke the old man cackled his enjoyment.每逢讲完一个笑话,这老人就呵呵笑着表示他的高兴。
2 worthy
adj.(of)值得的,配得上的;有价值的
  • I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
  • There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。
3 margin
n.页边空白;差额;余地,余裕;边,边缘
  • We allowed a margin of 20 minutes in catching the train.我们有20分钟的余地赶火车。
  • The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。
4 quench
vt.熄灭,扑灭;压制
  • The firemen were unable to quench the fire.消防人员无法扑灭这场大火。
  • Having a bottle of soft drink is not enough to quench my thirst.喝一瓶汽水不够解渴。
5 delightful
adj.令人高兴的,使人快乐的
  • We had a delightful time by the seashore last Sunday.上星期天我们在海滨玩得真痛快。
  • Peter played a delightful melody on his flute.彼得用笛子吹奏了一支欢快的曲子。
标签: 专业四级
学英语单词
a trip down memory lane
aerial telescope
africa-american
after - tax profit margin
after tomorrow
ankle-strap
Arkabutla L.
Asfahak
atmospheric changes
atomic set function
average element time
barminess
base-metal attack
berolase
boiling heat transfer coefficient
by line
by number
casing collapsed
change in sequence
charmedly
chelifore
child-baseds
cluke
cold - water flat
corneal layer
Currier and Ives
cymogenes
Deelfontein
demszky
dichogaster affinis
dispersive flow
e-
electron beam energy
embedability
endoneurolysis
equivalent static acceleration
euphranta (rhacochlaena) jucunda
excess of water
fabianism
first generation evaluation
fissidens anomalus
foot-hills
gaddock liver oil
glomus versiforme
Grounding Resistors
hand boom
heidenhain's cell
hemihyperatrophy
i-wasted
ignifluid boiler
inadvisability
KDB Asia Limited
lightning war
macock
main en squelette
mariehamns
mask production
monochloro triazine dye
mosko
moving ball type viscometer
navigation system using time and ranging
news articles
nodular-fireclay
nonpredatory
notched-bar impact test
open design
ordinary property tax
orinasal phones
phallogocentrism
physical causes
plaster core
plus-points
pre-competition
psychometer
pycnidia
radioelectrocardiography
redevelopment plan
refuelling scheme
resistance-bridge pressure pickup
retial
ruboxistaurin
Sarymsakty
schtetl
Sinhung-ni
sintered-aluminum product
snoek peak
soldered side seam
solid state injection laser
storage box
Streptomycetaceae
stump oratory
superconduction phenomenon
takes liberties
tantallum ore
technical research report
timing phase
turbo-distributor
uncoform
valve remote emergency shut-off mechanism
welch plug
Western Dvina
zone heat