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One of the main objectives of the project of "Recovering the Classics" is to make covers available for digital versions of books like Pride and Prejudice and Little Women, which have entered the public domain and are available for free on e-readers, but are often packaged in unappealing ways.
“重现经典”这一项目的主要目的之一在于给诸如《傲慢与偏见》、《小妇人》等书籍的电子版也配上封面。这些书籍已步入公众领域、免费提供给网络读者,但往往这些书的包装却乏善可陈。

Another aim is to make classics appealing to younger readers, who might be put-off by coverless or dusty-covered tomes, but might reconsider an older book with a splash of color on its cover. Fresh covers bring new life to the books, and make them more inviting to today’s students who browse online all the time.
另一目的是让经典读物可以吸引年轻读者。年轻人或许会对没有封皮或者封面蒙灰的大部头书籍兴味索然,但或许会因为封皮上的一抹色彩而考虑重读旧书。新封面可以给书籍带来生机,愈加吸引当今那些时时流连网站的学生们。

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"When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." — Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
“排除了一切不可能,剩下的不管多么难以置信,便一定是真相。”——亚瑟·柯南道尔《福尔摩斯》

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"I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again." ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
我不想重回天真,我要的就是天真不再的快感。”——斯科特·菲兹杰拉德《人间天堂》 

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"Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old." — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
“人人都想要长命百岁,但没人愿意变老。”——乔纳森·斯威夫特《格列佛游记》

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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“有钱的单身汉总要娶位太太,这是全球公认的真理。”——简·奥斯汀《傲慢与偏见》 

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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another." — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“语言并不能很好地表达思想。一旦表达出来,便有所不同,意思会稍稍扭曲、会有点愚蠢。但言语表达令我喜悦;对一些人有价值、有智慧的言语对其他人或许一文不名,这似乎也对。”——黑塞赫尔曼《悉达多》

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"The sewer is the conscience of the city." — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“下水道是城市的良心。”——维克多·雨果《悲惨世界》

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"The eye because of flows the multi-tears but Pure Brightness, the heart because of had experienced much suffering but is good-natured." — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“眼因流多泪水而愈益清明,心因饱经忧患而愈益温厚。”——路易莎·梅·奥尔科特《小妇人》

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"No, no — there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don't know what I don't see — what I don't fear!" — Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
“不不!有深度!有深度!我越是回想,越是发觉更多;我发现更多,我便越害怕。我不知道我忽略了什么,我也不知道我害怕什么。”——亨利·詹姆斯《螺丝在拧紧》 

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"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes." — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“经验是每个人为自己所犯的错误取的名字。”——奥斯卡·王尔德《道林·格雷的画像》