[There is that shadow of illiteracy.

这便是那文盲的阴影
Our attention is called to it the minute the books are mentioned.]

一提起书来我们的注意力就被吸引了
He would keep it as a kind of symbol

他要留着这张书橱
for his determination to get them,

作为显示他决心读书的一种象征
but then he realized that

但他不久就意识到
what he could get for the bookcase would bring

这张书橱可以换得妻子和孩子对他的亲近
his wife and child closer to him so he put a price on it,

所以他就给它标了个价钱
fifteen dollars.

十五美元
It had been originally sold to a man of two slaves

原先买走这张书橱的是一个男人
who lost his sight,

拥有两个奴隶且双目失明
[another risk to reading: you can go blind] and so,

这是阅读的另一个风险你可能瞎掉
as he told Skiffington, lost his hunger

据他跟斯奇冯顿说他因而也就失去了