OfCounsel论谏议（中英对照）.doc

20 Of Counsel 论谏议 The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel. For in other confidences, men commit the parts of life; their lands, their goods, their children, their credit, some particular affair, but to such as they make their counsellors they commit the whole: by how much the more, they are obliged to all faith and integrity. 人与人之间最大的信任就是关于进言的信任。因为在别的信托之中人们不过是把生活底一部分委托于人，如田地、产业、子女、信用，某项个别事务是也；但是对那些他们认为是言官或诤友的人，他们是把生活底全部都委托了；由此可见这些有言责的人是更应当如何严守信实与坚贞也。 The wisest princes need not think it any diminution to their greatness, or derogation to their sufficiency, to rely upon counsel. God himself is not without: but hath made it one of the great names of his blessed son; the counsellor. Solomon hath pronounced, that in counsel is stability. Things will have their first or second agitation; if they be not tossed upon the arguments of counsel they will be tossed upon the waves of fortune; and be full of inconstancy, doing, and undoing, like the reeling of a drunken man. Solomon\s son found the force of counsel as his father saw the necessity of it 人君中极聪明者也不必以为借助于言论就有损于他们底伟大或有伤于他们底能名。连上帝自己也是不能少它的，他并且把进言这件事定为他底圣嗣底尊号之一：就是“进言者”或“规劝者”。所罗门曾经说过：“安全是在忠言之中的”。凡事必有初动与次动；若不在言论底辩驳上颠簸，必将在幸运底波涛上颠簸，并且要有始无终，成败不定，好象一个醉人底蹒跚一样。所罗门底儿子发见了言论底力量，就如同他父亲发见了言论底必要一样。 For the beloved kingdom of God was first rent and broken by ill counsel; upon which counsel there are set, for our instruction, the two marks, whereby bad counsel is for ever best discerned: that it was young counsel for the persons;and violent counsel for the matter.因为上帝所最宠爱的那个国家是最先由邪说分裂破坏的；这邪说有两个特点，这两个特点可说是天意特赋予它，以教训世人如何可以永远看出邪恶的言论来的；就是，这种言论，在人底方面，是年青人底言论；在事底方面，是主张暴力的言论。 The ancient times do set forth in figure both the incorporation and inseparable conjunction of counsel with kings; and the wise and politic use of counsel by kings: the one, in that they say, Jupiter did many Metis, which signifieth counsel: whereby they intend, that sovereignty is married to counsel: the other, in that which followeth