1. She gazed at it for some time then added, "You don，t need bookcases at all. You can sit here in your spare time and read the carpet!"
她盯着“地毯”看了一会儿，又补充道你根本用不着书柜，有空的时候你可以坐在这儿读地毯!”
知识点：gaze at = stare at =focus on 盯着看
2. This has not been easy because I own over a thousand books.
但这并不容易，因为我有1000多本书。
知识点：have, own, possess都表示“拥有”，它们的区别如下：
1) Have = have got 常用在 口语中；
2) own 强调合法地拥有某物；
3) possess 更突出从属关系。
3. To make matters worse, the room is rather small, so I have temporarily put my books on the floor.
更糟糕的是房间还非常小，所以我暂时把书放在了地板上。
语言点1本句中so引导并列句
知识点2：to make matters wo撕是一个插入语，表示递进关系，起到进一步补充说明的作用。
to make matters worse 相当于 worse than all, what is worse。
知识点3： rather =fairly =quite 相当；十分；彻底
