Of_Studies赏析.doc

Of Studies 谈读书 1. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. 东旭：读书是为了娱乐、装饰和增长才能。 王佐良：读书足以怡情，足以傅彩，足以长才。 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. 东：其娱乐方面的主要用途在于独处和隐退之时；其装饰方面的主要用途在于言谈之中；其增长才能方面的主要用途在于对事务的判断和处理。 王：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。 3. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. 东：因为虽然有实践经验的人能完成特定工作，而且也许还能对个别的事情一一作出判断，但是宏观的建议，以及对事务的筹划和安排，绝大多数都是出自有学问的人。 王：练达之士虽能分别处理细事或一一判断枝节，然纵观统筹、全局策划，则舍好学深思者莫属。 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 rule, is the humour of a scholar. 东：把时间过多地花费在学问上，是怠惰；把学问过多地用做装饰，是虚伪；完全按学问的规则来判断，则是书呆子的嗜好。 王：读书费时过多易惰，文采藻饰太盛则矫，全凭条文断事乃学究故态。 5. The perfect nature, and 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. 东：学问能使天性完美，而经验又能使学问完善：因为天生的才能犹如野生植物，需要用学问加以修剪；而学问本身若不受经验的限制，则它们所作的指导就太泛泛了。 王：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。 6. 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. 东：狡诈的人蔑视学问，愚笨的人羡慕学问，聪明的人运用学问；因为学问并不传授它们自己的用法；这种运用之道是学问之外、并超乎学问之上的一种才智，只有通过观察才能获得。 王：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。 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. 东：读书不是为了闲谈和演说，而是为了权衡和思考。 王：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。 8. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books