培根的两种译文比较分析.doc

Francis Bacons Of Studies 王佐良和廖运范两种译本分析比较： 1）Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. 王佐良译文：读书足以怡情，足以傅彩，足以长才。 廖运范译文：读书能给人乐趣、文雅和能力。 2）Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of business. 王佐良译文：其怡情也，最见于独处幽居之时；其傅彩也，最见于高谈阔论之中，其长才也，最见于处世判事之际。 廖运范译文：人们独居或退隐的时候，最能体会到读书的乐趣；谈话的时候，最能出读书的文雅；判断和处理事物的时候，最能发挥由读书而获得的能力。 3) For expert men can execute（实施,实行;执行;履行）, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling（1.封送处理 2.砌体 3.编组）of affairs, come best from those that are learned. 王佐良译文：练达之士虽能分别处理细事或一一判别枝节，然纵观统筹、全局策划，则舍好学深思者莫属。 廖运范译文：那些有实际经验而没有学识的人，也许能够一一实行或判断某些事物的细微末节，但对于事业的一般指导、筹划与处理，还是真正有学问的人才能胜任。 4）To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affection; to make judgement wholly by their rules, is the humour（幽默，纵容，迁就） of a scholar. 王佐良译文：读书费时过多易惰，文采藻饰太则矫，全凭条文断事乃学究故态。 廖运范译文：耗费过多的时间去读便是迟滞，过分用学问炫便是矫揉造作，而全凭学理判断一切，则是书呆子的癖好。 惰5）They perfect nature, ad are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in experience. 王佐良译文：读书补天然之不足，经验又补读书之不足，盖天生才干犹如自然花草，读书然后知如何修剪移接；而书中所示，如不以经验范之，则又大而无当。廖运范译文：学问能美化人性，经验又能充实学问。天生的植物需要人工修剪，人类的本性也需要学问诱导，而学问本身又必须以经验来规范，否则便太迂阔了。 6)（难点） Crafty men contempt studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. 王佐良译文：有一技之长者鄙读书，无知者慕读书，唯明智之士用读书，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。 廖运范译文：技巧的人轻视学问，浅薄的人惊服学问聪明的人却能利用学问。因为学问本身并不曾把它的用途教给人，至于如何去应用它，那是在学问之外、超越学问之上、由观察而获得的一种聪明呢！ 7）Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. 王佐良译文： 廖运范译文：读书不是为着要辩驳，也不是要盲目信从，更不是要去找寻谈话的资料，而是要去权衡和思考。 8) Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and s