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一个人的生命究竟有多大意义，这有什么标准可以衡量吗？提出一个绝对的标准当然很困难；但是，大体上看一个人对待生命的态度是否严肃认真，看他对待劳动、工作等等的态度如何，也就不难对这个人的存在意义做出适当的估计了。

古来一切有成就的人，都很严肃地对待自己的生命，当他活着一天，总要尽量多劳动、多工作、多学习，不肯虚度年华，不让时间白白地浪费掉。我国历代的劳动人民及大政治家、大思想家等等都莫不如此。

English to Chinese

It is simple enough to saythat since books have classes fiction, biography, poetry—we should separatethem and take from each what it is right that each should give us. Yet fewpeople ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to bookswith blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, ofpoetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, ofhistory that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all suchpreconception when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Do notdictate to your author. try to become him. Be his fellow worker and accomplice.If you hang back, and reserve and criticize at first, you are preventingyourself from getting the fullest possible value from what you read. But if youopen your mind as widely as possible, then signs and hints of almostimperceptible finess, from the twist and turn of the first sentences, willbring you into the presence of a human being unlike any other. Steep yourselfin this, acquaint yourself with this, and soon you will find that your author isgiving you, or attempting to give you, something far more definite.