1, people can't live without books just as they can't live without air. -Korolev (highlighting the importance of reading with metaphor)

2, books or medicine, good reading can cure fools. -Liu Xiang in the Western Han Dynasty (comparing books to medicine by metaphor)

A good secretary is like medicine. Books can cure people's ignorance if you can make good use of them and study hard.

Books are ships of ideas sailing in the waves of the times, and they carefully transport precious goods to generations.

-British Bacon (comparing books to ships by metaphor, highlighting the importance of books to people)

Books are the ladder of human progress. ——? Gorky said (metaphorically, compare books to ladders to highlight the importance of books)

Books are the source of all our knowledge, just like tightening the screws of a machine, they are indispensable. -Hou (comparing books to screws, highlighting the importance of books)

Extended data

Interpreting ancient poems with figurative rhetoric;

Read with insight

Author: Xiao Lun said (Qing Dynasty)

The human heart is like a good seedling, it is growing and waiting to be nurtured; Water the seedlings with spring water and nourish the heart with reason and righteousness.

If you don't study for a day, you won't have good ideas. Don't study in January, keep your eyes open and your ears open.

Translation:

A person's heart is like a good seedling. Only when it is well maintained can it grow. The growth of seedlings needs spring water irrigation, and the soul needs moral education. People don't study for a day, and they have no good ideas in their hearts. If I don't study for a month, I feel my ears and eyes are not clear.

Appreciate:

This poem illustrates the advantages of reading and the disadvantages of not reading, and advises people to love reading, persist in reading and express its truth incisively and vividly.

The first combination of metaphors in poetry compares people to good seedlings and takes moral norms as personal nourishment, which highlights the importance of moral norms. The last two sentences emphasize the importance of reading. Reading is the eyes and ears of people. Without reading, you can't get important information, just like covering your ears and eyes.