装饰者从来没有真正意识到堆积书籍的意义。书籍给房间带来了色彩并填满了房间,但书架上只放着一件东西,这让他们觉得悲剧性地失去了装饰性展示的机会。
(Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost.)