Books Are The Stepping Stones To Human Progress (书籍是人类进步的阶梯) Books Are The Stepping Stones To Human Progress (书籍是人类进步的阶梯) A Chinese saying goes that "learning to be good takes thousands of days, while learning to be bad takes no time" (中国有句名言说，“学好千日不足，学坏一日有余”). Another one is "learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to dropback" (另一句是“学如逆水行舟，不进则退”). I hardly read books that I haven't read before this month (这个月我没怎么阅读——之前没有读过的书). Every time after I had dropped reading for some days, when I restarted, I would find that I became blundering those days (每次我一段时间不读书后，重新开始读书时我就发现自己那段不读书的时间变浮躁了). I read The Prince and the Pauper and The Mysterious Strange by Mark Twain in Chinese version recently; I felt I was still ignorant after reading them (我最近读了马克·吐温的《王子与贫儿》和《神秘的陌生人》中文版，发现自己仍然很无知). I should treasure time and read more (我应该珍惜时间，读更多书).