but far more importantly,

但更重要的是
I hope that you will continue to do it

我希望你们能在课外阅读时
when you read on your own outside of class. A lot of you are seniors.

继续这样做你们中很多是大三学生
You may not have a lot of time after you leave school to read novels.

你们离校后也许没多少时间读小说
When you do, I hope it will be part of your pleasure

当你们看书时我希望这能变成
to approach them with a sense of empowerment,

你们自主读书的乐趣
that you can know where they fit

这样你们就会知道它们在
in the history of the art form they're engaging,

在艺术形式史上处于什么位置
apart from your own pleasure in reading them,

而不仅仅是出自你们的阅读快感
which will I'm sure be the primary reason you'd pick up a novel to read it,

我确信这是你们选读小说的主要原因
but there is that other intellectual pleasure

但现在你们还可以享受另一种
that you now can have.

智识上的乐趣