Vocabulary: Reading 词汇: 阅读
What do you read when you are travelling by train or bus?
你一般会在坐火车或者公交的时候，阅读些什么书呢？
What are other passengers reading? Perhaps a woman sitting near you is reading atrashy romantic novel. A man is reading a serious biography about a politician. And there's a student reading an English textbook.
车上的其他乘客在阅读什么书呢？也许坐在你旁边的女士正在阅读一本无价值的浪漫爱情小说。一位男士正在阅读一本关于政治家的自传。有个学生正在阅读英语课本。
What do their choices say about them? Do you judge them by what they are reading?
他们的取向说明了什么？你是否会从他们阅读的取向来判断他们呢？
The woman reading the romantic novel could be a lawyer. She just wants a light read to take her mind off work.
我不得不告诉你，你对他们的印象是完全错误的。那位阅读爱情小说的女士有可能是律师。她只是想一本欢快的小说来让她不在思考工作。
The man reading the biography wants you to think that he is an intellectual, but he is just showing off. The student reading the textbook isn't a student at all. She's an English teacher.
那位阅读自传的男士只是想让你认为他是个知识分子，但他只是在炫耀。那位正在阅读学生课本的学生也压根可能不是学生，她是一位老师。
Publishers know that some people are self-conscious about what they read o-n public transport and so they put out different versions of a cover. For example, books about Harry Potter have an original cover for young readers and then another more serious version for adults.
出版商知道，当有些读者在乘坐公共交通工具时，有很强的自我意识关于他们所读。所以他们推出不同版本的封面。例如，哈利波特的原版封面是给年轻的读者们，还有另一些比较成熟的封面给成人们。
So next time you are on a train, look around and see what other people are reading, but don't jump to any conclusions. You will probably be wrong.
所以下次当你你在火车上时，看看四周并观察其他人在看什么书，但是不要轻率下结论。你有可能是错的。
Here is a situation where you could say, "Don't judge a book by its cover".
这是一个你经常会说的例子“不要以貌取人”。
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