That's why studies have found this kind of deep reading makes us more empathetic, or as Nicholas Carr puts it in his essay, The Dreams of Readers, "more alert to the inner lives of others".

这就是为什么研究发现深度阅读会让我们更加感同身受。或者说，正如美国作家尼古拉斯·卡尔在他的著作《读者的梦》中所描述的那样， “阅读能使人更容易注意到他人的内心生活。”