开心时，书可以给你增加快乐；忧伤时，书可以给你减少哀愁。 - Zhictionary

Zhictionary

开心时，书可以给你增加快乐；忧伤时，书可以给你减少哀愁。

When you are cheerful, books can increase your happiness; when you are sad, books can lessen your sorrow.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

to feel happy
to rejoice
to have a great time
to make fun of sb

old variant of 時 shí

o'clock
time
when
hour
season
period

abbr. for 書經 Shūjīng

book
letter
document
to write

classifiers: 本, 冊, 部

can
may
possible
able to
not bad
pretty good

to
for
for the benefit of
to give
to allow
to do sth (for sb)
(grammatical equivalent of 被)
(grammatical equivalent of 把)
(sentence intensifier)

to supply
to provide

you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您 nín)

you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)

to raise; to increase

distressed
laden with grief

old variant of 時 shí

o'clock
time
when
hour
season
period

abbr. for 書經 Shūjīng

book
letter
document
to write

classifiers: 本, 冊, 部

can
may
possible
able to
not bad
pretty good

to
for
for the benefit of
to give
to allow
to do sth (for sb)
(grammatical equivalent of 被)
(grammatical equivalent of 把)
(sentence intensifier)

to supply
to provide

you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您 nín)

you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)

to lessen; to decrease; to reduce; to lower

sorrow; sadness
distressed; sorrowful