閱讀推薦：愛因斯坦最愛的5本書

小編按：新鮮出爐的“死活讀不下去的名著”排行！大家讀過幾部呢？其實英語君覺得四大名著真心有情節有人物，讀不下去只能算耐心不夠，但是《追憶似水年華》、《百年孤獨》還有《瓦爾登湖》之流，光靠耐心和毅力是遠遠不夠的……不過拋開這份讀不下去的名著單，我們來看看愛因斯坦最愛的5本書，跟着名人漲知識吧！

1.《紅樓夢》（The Story of the Stone）
2.《百年孤獨》（One Hundred Years of Solitude）
3.《三國演義》（Romance of the Three Kingdoms）
4.《追憶似水年華》（Remembrance of Things Past）
5.《瓦爾登湖》（Walden）
6.《水滸傳》（Water Margin）
7.《不能承受的生命之輕》（The Unbearable Lightness of Being）
8.《西遊記》（Journey to the West）
9.《鋼鐵是怎樣煉成的》（The Making of Steel）
10.《尤利西斯》（Ulysses）

“Don Quijote” by Cervantes Saavedra
《堂吉訶德》——塞萬提斯·薩維德拉著

Much reading and book-learning can drive you to try and become one of the characters in your favorite novels.
涉獵書傳、博學強記可以促使一個人成爲其最愛小說中的人物形象。

This is what happens to Don Quixote, who attempts many chivalrous knightly acts while hampered by a world that has rejected knightly virtues.
唐吉坷德就是這麼一個人。他彬彬有禮、處處發揚騎士的美德善行，卻不爲周遭世界接受。

The Guardian rightly placed this 400-year-old classic novel among the its all-time Top 100 books, and quite rightly between these three selections: Diary of a Madman, The Divine Comedy, and Anderson's Fairy Tales.
《衛報》恰如其分地評價了這部享譽400年的經典鉅著，其地位介於《狂人日記》、《神曲》和《安徒生童話》之間。

Cervantes weaves all three elements – madness, comedy, and fantasy – in between conversations and adventures shared between Quixote and Sancho Panza, his seemingly simple-minded but loyal and outspoken aide de camp.
在塞萬提斯筆下，癲狂、喜劇和夢幻這三種元素交織在一起，融匯於唐吉坷德和桑喬·潘扎烈倆人的對話和歷險中。潘扎烈看似頭腦簡單，實則是堂吉訶德直言不諱的參謀。

“A Treatise of Human Nature” by David Hume
《人性論》——戴維·休姆著

Exploring the link between science and human nature, or a scientifically applied moral philosophy, is the goal of this Treatise.
探索科學和人性的聯繫、換言之，道德哲學的科學應用是這本論著討論的目標。

Building on early complaints against the endless conjecture and wranglings between philosophers, this work promotes a move away from metaphysical speculation and a permanent shift toward systems based on observational fact.
基於哲學家們無盡的臆測和爭執，這本著作促進了形而上學思辨向事實觀察體系的永久轉變。

By banishing supernatural doctrine that looks beyond the existing world, fear and prejudice can take a backseat in human experience.
書中擯棄了洞察世事的超自然教條，恐懼和偏見佔據人類體驗的次要地位。

“None” by B. Kovner
《無人》——布魯斯·柯夫納

Einstein's favourite reading duirng his last few months of his life were humorist stories of ner, a writer for the Jewish Daily Forward.
愛因斯坦臨終前最後幾個月最愛讀的是《猶太日報》幽默大師克努福的小說。

Kovner (pen name for Jacob Adler) wrote a series of humoirst stories in Yiddish for the forward. Einstein looked forward to each new episode in his last several months.
克努福是筆名，原名約伯·阿德勒。克努福用意第緒語給《猶太日報》寫稿。愛因斯坦臨終前每個月都心心念念盼望克努福出每一集新故事。

“Isis Unveiled: Secrets of the Ancient Wisdom Tradition” by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
《揭開伊西斯的面紗》——蓮娜·布拉瓦茨基

This book made its way into Elvis Presley's reading list.
這本書還爬上了貓王的書單。

As a Theosophist, Blavatsky promoted pantheism and greatly influenced both Mahatma Gandhi and Annie Besant.
作爲神智學者，布拉瓦茨基宣揚泛神論，對甘地和安妮·貝費特有很大影響。

In this work, spiritualism and occult practices are the base for examining ancient Eastern and Western wisdom, rather than the traditionally reversed path of finding knowledge.
這本著作中，唯心論和神祕學是檢驗古代中西智慧的基礎，而不是傳統意義上與之相反的求知道路。

Like David Hume, Blavatsky examines existing philosophical systems and ideas and finds them to be inadquate.
戴維·休姆一樣,布拉瓦茨基認爲現行的哲學體系和思想存有不足。

“The Brothers Karamasov” by Dostoevsky
陀思妥耶夫斯基——《卡拉馬助夫兄弟們》

Also recommended by Vladimir Putin.
也是弗拉基米爾·普京（現任俄羅斯總統）推薦的。

This is of the best allegorical novels to explain the fractured nature of 19th century Russia. Each character is representative of one of the ruling classes.
這是最棒的諷喻類小說之一，闡釋了19世紀俄國貴族社會的荒淫無度、個人道德品格敗壞的全般現象。每一個人物都代表了統治階級的一員。

There is the father Fyodor, the landowner who is negligent about his land, but greedy in using its produce for himself. There's Dmitri, who has been passed around from house to house, and has grown up an entitled but debt-ridden soul. There's the skeptic Ivan, who wishes to live more among cold concepts than people. And gentle Alyosha, the mystic and religious peacemaker, and the illegitimate Smerdyakov.
父親費奧多，疏於農作卻掛念着農產品。還有德米特里，在各家各戶輾轉，長大成人卻有着一顆負債累累的心。另有疑神疑鬼的伊萬，與其和人相處，更願意活在冰冷的概念裏。還有溫柔的阿遼沙，既神祕又信奉宗教的和事佬，及私生的斯梅迪亞克。

Throughout are themes of love, law, and duty, which makes this one of the best Dostoyesky books to read besides Crime and Punishment.
貫穿整個小說的主題是愛、法則和責任，這使其成爲杜斯妥也夫斯基《罪與罰》之外最好的一本書。