英语_阅读_a book in your hands

When you hold a book in your hands, please stop and think. lt is the result of thousands of years of human invention.

First came the invention of writing, With it, people didn't have to remember everything in their heads. They could communicate with people they never saw and share their ideas with others. Then the Greeks invented books with lots of pages to replace scrolls ( 轴).

For more than a thousand years. the pages of books were made from animal skin That changed in the thirteenth century, The Chinese invented the method for making paper.

After that, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. Before that, books in Europe were copied by hand, so they were very expensive.

It made it possible for more people to afford the books. But human invention does not stop, Now more stories are bought as c- books and read on a screen.

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When you hold a book in your hands, please stop and think. lt is the result of thousands of years of human invention.
当你手捧一本书时，请停下来想一想。这是人类几千年发明的结晶。

First came the invention of writing, With it, people didn't have to remember everything in their heads. They could communicate with people they never saw and share their ideas with others. Then the Greeks invented books with lots of pages to replace scrolls ( 轴).
首先是文字的发明。有了文字，人们不必把所有事情都记在脑子里。他们能与素未谋面的人交流，与他人分享想法。接着希腊人发明了多页书籍，取代了卷轴。

 

For more than a thousand years. the pages of books were made from animal skin That changed in the thirteenth century, The Chinese invented the method for making paper.
一千多年来，书页一直用兽皮制作。直到十三世纪这种情况才发生改变——中国人发明了造纸术。

After that, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. Before that, books in Europe were copied by hand, so they were very expensive.
此后，约翰内斯·古腾堡发明了印刷机。在此之前，欧洲的书籍都是手抄本，因此价格极其昂贵。

It made it possible for more people to afford the books. But human invention does not stop, Now more stories are bought as c- books and read on a screen.
印刷机让更多人能买得起书。但人类的发明从未止步，如今更多故事以电子书的形式被购买，在屏幕上阅读。