55Different readers face different advantages and drawbacks（缺点）in forming good reading habits. The circumstances of your personal life may make it easy or hard to find reading time, but time itself is not the real issue--it's habit. Reading must be something you do regularly（定期地）, like brushing your teeth. Reading habits flourish（繁荣,兴旺）best in routine（日常的）, but the efficient（效率高的）reader also exploits（利用）opportunity. Routine（（日常的）: Set aside some time every day when you can work undisturbed for an hour or two--first thing in the morning, during lunch, after dinner, whenever you can set aside other demands（需要,需求）. Ideally（,理想地）it's the same time of day. Your family and friends will soon build their routines around yours. With luck, they will resent your unscheduled appearances during your reading time, and will send you packing back to your desk.Keep your reading equipment （装备）(paper, pens, dictionaries etc.) in your reading place(a sofa? Or your study? ), close at hand. Minimize （对……做最低估计）distractions like interesting new magazines. Try to find a reading time when few people phone or visit. If a cup of coffee and some background music make you feel less lonely, by all means enjoy them.Use household（家庭的）chores（日常零星活儿）as thinking time: a chance to review what you've done so far and to consider where your reading should go next. Walking the dog or vacuuming（真空吸尘器）the carpet（地毯）can provide more ideas than you expect. This is really just ``controlled daydreaming,'' letting your mind freewheel（自由飞轮）in a particular direction: What the heroine（女主人公）should do in the next chapter(章,回), how the hero would respond to escaping a car bomb(炸弹), how the villain(坏人)developed his evil (邪恶的)character. But the process(进程)doesn't seem to work if you just sit and stare at the wall. You need to be up and moving in some automatic pattern."Developing Efficient(效率高的)Work HabitsAs I Walked Out One Eveningby W. H. AudenAs I walked out one evening,Walking down Bristol Street,The crowds upon the pavement（人行道）Were fields of harvest（收获）wheat（小麦）. And down by the brimming riverI heard a lover singUnder an arch（拱门）of the railway:Love has no ending.'I'll love you, dear, I'll love youTill China and Africa meet,And the river jumps over the mountainAnd the salmon（鲑鱼,）sing in the street,I'll love you till the oceanIs folded and hung up to dry（干燥的）And the seven stars go squawkingLike geese（goose 鹅）about the sky.'The years shall run like rabbits,For in my arms I holdThe Flower of the Ages,And the first love of the world.'But all the clocks in the cityBegan to whirr（飞机螺旋桨转动呼呼）and chime:'O let not Time deceive you,You cannot conquer(征服)Time.'In the burrows(地洞, 穴)of the Nightmare(恶梦) Where Justice(正义;公平)naked is,Time watches from the shadowAnd coughs when you would kiss.'In headaches and in worryVaguely (茫然地)life leaks away,And Time will have his fancy(想像;想像力;幻想) To-morrow or to-day.'Into many a green valleyDrifts the appalling snow;Time breaks the threaded dancesAnd the diver's brilliant bow.'O plunge your hands in water,Plunge them in up to the wrist;Stare, stare in the basinAnd wonder what you've missed.'The glacier knocks in the cupboard,The desert sighs in the bed,And the crack in the tea-cup opensA lane to the land of the dead.'Where the beggars raffle the banknotesAnd the Giant is enchanting to Jack,And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer,And Jill goes down on her back.'O look, look in the mirror,O look in your distress:Life remains a blessingAlthough you cannot bless.'O stand, stand at the windowAs the tears scald and start;You shall love your crooked neighbourWith your crooked heart.'It was late, late in the evening,The lovers they were gone;The clocks had ceased their chiming,And the deep river ran on.friendship can evolve(发展) to love, yet love can never fade into friendship. That's why darling we can never be friends again.if we cannot see the wind, we can see the wind’s will。
