Of Studies 王佐良先生译文

2021年2月8日发(作者：账户名称)

Of

Studies

王佐良先生译文（英汉对照）

STUDIES

serve

for

delight,

for

ornament,

and

for

ability.

读书足以怡情，足以博彩，足以长才。

Their

chief

use

for

delight,

is

in

privateness

and

retiring;

(a

retiring

room

休息室

)

其怡情也，最见于独处幽居之时；

for

ornament,

is

in

discourse;

其傅彩也，最见于高谈阔论之中；

and

for

ability,

is

in

the

judgment,

and

disposition

部署

of

business.

其长才也，最见于处世判事之际。

For

expert

men

can

execute,

and

perhaps

judge

of

particulars,

one

by

one;

练达之士虽能分别处理细事或一一判别枝节，

but

the

general

counsels,

and

the

plots

and

marshalling

of

affairs,

come

best,

from

those

that

are

learned.

然纵观统筹、全局策划，则舍好学深思者莫属。

To

spend

too

much

time

in

studies

is

sloth;

读书费时过多易惰，

to

use

them

too

much

for

ornament,

is

affectation;

文采藻饰太盛则矫，

to

make

judgment

wholly

by

their

rules,

is

the

humor

怪僻的行为

of

a

scholar.

全凭条文断事乃学究故态。

They

perfect

nature,

and

are

perfected

by

experience:

读书补天然之不足，经验又补读书之不足，

for

natural

abilities

are

like

natural

plants,

that

need

pruning,

by

study;

盖天生才干犹如自然花草，读书然后知如何修剪移接；

and

studies

themselves,

do

give

forth

directions

too

much

at

large,

except

they

be

bounded

in

by

experience.

而书中所示，如不以经验范之，则又大而无当。

Crafty

men

contemn

studies,

simple

men

admire

them,

and

wise

men

use

them;

有一技之长者鄙读书，无知者羡读书，唯明智之士用读书，

for

they

teach

not

their

own

use;

but

that

is

a

wisdom

without

them,

and

above

th

em,

won

by

observation.

然书并不以用处告人，用书之智不在书中，而在书外，全凭观察得之。

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Read

not

to

contradict

and

confute

驳斥

;

nor

to

believe

and

take

for

granted;

nor

t

o

find

talk

and

discourse;

but

to

weigh

and

consider.

读书时不可存心诘难作者，不可尽信书上 所言，亦不可只为寻章摘句，而应推敲细思。

Some

books

are

to

be

tasted,

others

to

be

swallowed,

and

some

few

to

be

chewed

and

digested;

书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。

that

is,

some

books

are

to

be

read

only

in

parts;

others

to

be

read,

but

not

curiou

sly

（

carefully

）

;

and

some

few

to

be

read

wholly,

and

with

diligence

and

attention.

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换言之，有只须读其部分者，有只须大体涉猎者，少数则须全读，读时须全神贯注，孜孜不

倦。

Some

books

also

may

be

read

by

deputy,

and

extracts

made

of

them

by

others;

bu

t

that

would

be

only

in

the

less

important

arguments,

and

the

meaner

sort

of

book

s,

else

distilled

books

are

like

common

distilled

waters,

flashy

things.

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书亦可请人代读，

取其所作摘要，

但只限 题材较次或价值不高者，

否则书经提炼犹如水经蒸

馏、淡而无味 矣。

Reading

make

a

full

man;

conference

a

ready

man;

and

writing

an

exact

man.

读书使人充实，讨论使人机智，笔记使人准确。

And

therefore,

if

a

man

write

little,

he

had

need

have

a

great

memory;

因此不常作笔记者须记忆特强，

if

he

confer

little,

he

had

need

have

a

present

wit;

不常讨论者须天生聪颖，

and

if

he

read

little,

he

had

need

have

much

cunning,

to

seem

to

know,

that

he

d

oth

not.

不常读书者须欺世有术，始能无知而显有知。

Histories

make

men

wise;

poets

witty;

the

mathematics

subtitle;

natural

philosophy

deep;

moral

grave;

logic

and

rhetoric

able

to

contend.

Abeunt

studia

in

mores.

读史使人明智，读诗使人灵秀，数学使人周密，科学使人深刻，伦理学使人庄重，逻辑修 辞

之学使人善辩：凡有所学，皆成性格。

Nay,

there

is

no

stand

or

impediment

结巴

,

妨碍

in

the

wit,

but

may

be

wrought

out

by

fit

studies;

like

as

diseases

of

the

body,

may

have

appropriate

exercises.

人之才智但 有滞碍，无不可读适当之书使之顺畅，一如身体百病，皆可借相宜之运动除之。