Of Studies 论读书

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Of Studies 论读书

By Francis Bacon

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.

读书足以怡情，足以博采，足以长才。其怡情也，最见于独处幽居之时；其博采也，最见于高谈阔论之中；其长才也，最见于处事判事之际。

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.

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。

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar.

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。

They 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, excerpt they be bounded in experience.

读书补天然之不足，经验又补读书之不足，盖天性犹如自然花草，读书然后知如何修剪移接；而书中所示，如不以经验示之，则又大而无当。

Crafty men contempt studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that there is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

有一技之长者鄙读书，无知者羡慕读书，唯明知之士用读书，然书不以用处告人，用书之智不在书中，而在书外，全凭观察得之。

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk for granted; nor to 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 read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but what would be only in the less important arguments, and meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things.

书有浅尝辄止者，有可吞食者，少数须咀嚼消化，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。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 makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer litter, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.

读书使人充实，讨论使人机智，笔记使人准确。因此不常做笔记者须记忆特强，不常讨论者须天生聪颖，不常读书者须有欺世之术，始能无知而显有知。

Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; 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，逻辑修饰使人善辩；凡有所学，皆成性格。

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书到用时方恨少,读书也是我们活在世上的一种理由!

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书让人放松，让人快乐