The parquet floors shone like mirrors; highly polished silver was displayed in gleaming glass cabinets; even my uncle's huge collection of books was kept miraculously free from dust.

镶木地板洁如明镜，擦得发亮的银器陈列在明亮的玻璃柜里，连姑夫的大量藏书也保存得很好，奇迹般地一尘不染。

At breakfast on Thursday she bored them all stupid with flying tips she'd gotten out of a library book called Quidditch Through the Ages.

星期四早晨吃早饭的时候，她不停地对他们念叨她从一本名叫《魁地奇溯源》的图书馆藏书中看来的一些飞行指导，把他们烦得够呛。

Don't be churlish, Daisy. Mr Molesley's offering to lend you one of his prized possessions.

别没礼貌，黛西。莫斯先生愿意把他的珍贵藏书借给你看呢。

It boasts a quiet atmosphere, friendly colleagues, and the four hundred-year old Bodleian library, which has over five million books.

这里有优雅的环境，友好的同事，以及一个有着四百年历史、藏书五百多万册的牛津大博德图书馆。

He was a bookaholic, a bibliophile, a paper freak, an ink vampire.

他是书虫，藏书家，纸张狂魔，吸墨鬼。

I was on a road trip with my father and we went to the west coast of Scotland which is remote and wild and the house that we were staying in had a very interesting collection, small collection, of books.

我和我父亲一起开车旅行，我们去了苏格兰的西海岸，那是一个偏远而荒凉的地方，我们住的房子里有一些非常有趣的藏书，少量的藏书。

Because the collections made her feel that she was in the presence of something transcendent.

因为这些藏书让她感到自己正处于某种超凡脱俗的事物之中。

The library collection in total is around 170 million items.

图书馆藏书总数约1.7亿册。

If you're a fan of large libraries, you'll be pleased to know that the Le Rosey library has thousands of books in over 20 languages.

如果你喜欢大型图书馆，这消息会让你很兴奋，萝实院图书馆有超过 20 多种语言的数千本藏书。

And then, of course, there was the sheer size of the library; tens of thousands of books; thousands of shelves; hundreds of narrow rows.

还有，当然啦，单是馆内藏书的规模就令人望而却步，那里有成千上万本书，几千个书架，几百条狭窄的通道。

In 1638, a young minister called John Harvard, upon his death, bequeathed to the college his entire library of about 400 book, and half of his estate of about ￡779.

1638年，一位名叫约翰哈佛的年轻牧师在临终前把藏书约为400本书的图书馆和价值大约779英镑的一半遗产都捐赠给了这个新的院。

Founded in 1973 in central London, the British Library is one of the largest libraries in the world, containing around 200 million books. But which of the following can be found on its shelves.

大英图书馆于1973年在伦敦市中心成立，是世界上最大的图书馆之一，藏书约2亿册。以下哪一项可以在其书架上找到。

Libraries made education possible, and education in its turn added to libraries: the growth of knowledge followed a kind of compound interest law, which was greatly enhanced by the invention of printing.

藏书使教育成为可能，而教育反过来又丰富了藏书，因为知识的增长遵循着一种“滚雪球”的规律。印刷术的发明又大大提高了知识增长的速度。

While Fourth has recently had a very splendid law library opened, that isn't particularly relevant for you, and I think you'd find Haynes' general university and faculty collections better suited to your needs.

虽然第四院最近新开了一座非常宏伟的法律图书馆，但这跟你关系不大。我觉得海恩斯院的大总图书馆和各院系的藏书可能更符合你的需求。

He possessed over 3,000 books, which was the largest library in England at the time.

他有三千多本藏书，在那个时代称得上英国最大的图书馆。

A well-stocked library would most likely be your heaven on earth.

一个藏书丰富的图书馆最有可能是你的人间天堂。

On the flyleaf, in very faded ink, is written 'Ex libris Guliolmi Whyte.'

书前扉页上写着'古列米·怀藏书' ，墨水早已褪了色。

Its collection is available on the Internet.

图书馆的所有藏书都在网上开放。

It had a library of twenty thousand books and a tradition of careful scientific investigation.

修道院有个拥有2万册藏书的图书馆，具有严谨的科研究的传统。

The law requires public lists of what is in each school library.

法律要求公开每个校图书馆的藏书清单。