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英语翻译选文如下:The good book of the hour,then,--I do not speak of

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英语翻译
选文如下:The good book of the hour,then,--I do not speak of the bad ones,--is simply the useful or pleasant talk of some person whom you cannototherwise converse with,printed for you.Very useful often,telling you what you need to know; very pleasant often,as asensible friend's present talk would be.These bright accounts oftravels; good-humoured and witty discussions of question; lively orpathetic story-telling in the form of novel; firm fact-telling,bythe real agents concerned in the events of passing history;--allthese books of the hour,multiplying among us as education becomesmore general,are a peculiar possession of the present age:weought to be entirely thankful for them,and entirely ashamed ofourselves if we make no good use of them.最主要的是我始终不明白“the good book of hour”到底指的是什么,急于复习,不甚感激!
这段的前一段是:But perhaps you will say that it is because the living people talkof things that are passing, and are of immediate interest to you,that you desire to hear them. Nay; that cannot be so, for theliving people will themselves tell you about passing matters muchbetter in their writings than in their careless talk. Yet I admitthat this motive does influence you, so far as you prefer thoserapid and ephemeral writings to slow and enduring writings--books,properly so called. For all books are divisible into two classes,the books of the hour, and the books of all time. Mark thisdistinction--it is not one of quality only. It is not merely thebad book that does not last, and the good one that does. It is adistinction of species. There are good books for the hour, and goodones for all time; bad books for the hour, and bad ones for alltime. I must define the two kinds before I go farther.这里book of the hour就是流行一时的书,相对the books of all time,可以流传百世的书the good book of the hour即流行一时的书中的佼佼者.