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，擦得发银器陈列在明璃柜里，连姑夫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.

星期四早晨吃早饭时候，她不停地对他们念叨她从一本名叫《魁地奇溯源》图书藏书中看来一些飞行指导，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。莫斯利先生愿意把他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.

这里有优雅环境，友好同事，以及一个有着四百年历史、藏书五百多万册牛津大博德利图书。

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，我们去了苏格兰西海岸，那是一个偏远而荒凉地方，我们住房子里有一些非常有趣藏书，少量藏书。

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凡脱俗事物之中。

The library collection in total is around 170 million items.

图书藏书总数约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，这消息会让你很兴奋，萝实院图书有过 20 多种语言数千本藏书。

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，单是内藏书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，一位名叫约翰哈佛年轻牧师在临终前把藏书约为400本书图书和价值大约779英镑一半遗产都捐赠给了这个新院。

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.

大英图书于1973年在伦敦市中心成立，是世界上最大图书之一，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，因为知识增长遵循着一种“滚雪球”规律。印刷术发明又大大提高了知识增长速度。

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法律图书，但这跟你关系不大。我觉得海恩斯院大总图书和各院系藏书可能更符合你需求。

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图书。

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

一个藏书丰富图书最有可能是你人间天堂。

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

书前扉页上写着'古列米·怀特藏书' ，墨水早已褪了色。

Its collection is available on the Internet.

图书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2万册藏书图书，具有严谨科研究传统。

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

法律要求公开每个校图书藏书清单。