由于捐赠,图书馆事业不断扩大, 读书成了一种时髦.用英语怎么说？

由于捐赠,图书馆事业不断扩大, 读书成了一种时髦.

The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable.

the

art. 指已提到的人（物），指说话人与听者已知的人（物），用于独一无二的事物前，与形容词最高级和序数词连用；

例句
He did have a real knowledge of the country...
他对该国的确知之甚多。

libraries

n. 图书馆（ library的名词复数 ），图书室；

例句
The entire paper contents of all libraries will eventually be scanned into computers...
所有图书馆的全部纸质内容最终都会被扫描进电脑。

were

be的过去时复数和第二人称单数形式，有时代替 was,用于条件从句、动词 wish 之后等；

例句
Shops, houses, and vehicles were set ablaze.
店铺、房子和车辆全都陷于火海。

augmented

adj. 增音的，扩张的；

例句
This new grammar we call an augmented operator grammar.
我们把这种新文法称为扩张算符文法.

by

prep. 在…旁边，表示方式，由于，经过；adv. 经过，表示保留或保存时用，短暂拜访；

例句
...expensive make-up that we saw being advertised by a beautiful model...
我们所见的由一位漂亮模特代言的昂贵化妆品

donations

n. 捐赠( donation的名词复数 )，赠送，捐款，捐赠物；

例句
They collected donations for a fund to help military families.
他们为一个旨在帮助军人家属的基金筹集捐款。

reading

n. 阅读，宣读，读物，读数；v. 读( read的现在分词)，看懂，理解，显示，标明；

例句
Listening to his life story is akin to reading a good adventure novel.
听他的人生故事犹如阅读一本精彩的冒险小说。

became

v. 变为，成为（ become的过去式 ）；

例句
It became very clear that the incident was not just an aberration, it was not just a single incident.
事实已经很清楚，这件事不是偶发的，它并不是一起孤立的事件。

fashionable

adj. 流行的，时髦的，符合时尚的，时髦人物使用的，（尤指）有钱人常光顾的；n. 时髦的人；

例句
It's fashionable for young people to wear trainers, but not just any trainers.
年轻人穿旅游鞋很时尚，但不是说所有的旅游鞋都如此。