原来地球人最爱的英文书是...

Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

_Pride and Prejudice_by Jane Austen

傲慢与我们对自己的看法更相关，虚荣则与我们希望别人对我们的看法更相关。《傲慢与偏见》

The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t. If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

_Cutting for Stone_by Abraham Verghese

幸福的关键就是，拥有你的拖鞋，拥有你自己，拥有你的样貌，拥有你的家庭，拥有你的天赋，拥有你没有的。如果你总是说拖鞋不是你的，那你就会拼命寻找它，最后在痛苦中死去，还总觉得你应该得到更多。不仅我们的行动，还有我们遗漏的东西，都会变成我们的命运。《斯通，与另一个斯通》

What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda. It’s that precious, fleeting time before we have accumulated enough pride or position to care what other people might think.

_Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back_by Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo, Colton Burpo

什么是孩子般的谦逊？不是不够聪明，而是没有欺诈，没有议程。也就是我们还没有获得足够的骄傲或地位去在乎其他人怎么想的那段珍贵而短暂的时间。《真的有天堂：一个小男孩去天堂旅行归来的传奇故事》

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

_The Picture of Dorian Gray_by Oscar Wilde

我选朋友的标准是外表美，选相识的标准是人品好，选敌人的标准是智商高。《道林格雷的画像》

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

_The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes_by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

生活比人类大脑能虚构出的任何东西都稀奇古怪得多。《福尔摩斯历险记》

Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose.

_The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People_by Stephen R. Covey

在刺激和反应之间，每个人都有选择的自由。《高效能人士的7个习惯》

Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving.

_The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts_by Gary D Chapman

我们最基本的情感需求不是坠入爱河，而是真正地被人爱，遇到一个因理性和选择而成长的爱人，而不是只顾本能的人。我需要被这样的人爱，ta选择去爱我，因为ta在我身上看到了值得爱的东东。《5种爱的语言：让爱持久的秘密》

Those three things—autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward—are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

_Outliers: The Story of Success_by Malcolm Gladwell

大多数人都同意，能给人带来满足感的工作要有3个特性——自主性、复杂性以及付出与回报的关联性。《异类：不一样的成功启示录》

Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

_How To Win Friends and Influence People_by Dale Carnegie

批评没有用，因为它把别人逼到防卫的位置，通常会让那个人极力为自己找理由。批评很危险，因为它会伤害别人的自严、自重，并激起怨恨。《人性的弱点》

这部奇书就是The Hunger Games（饥饿游戏）三部曲！说ta奇，因为在数据不会说谎的前提下，ta以绝对优势成为最受欢迎的书和最爱被划线的句子之最，大家觉得合理吗？