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For the more languages a man can speak,一个人会讲的语言愈多 His talent has but sprung the greater leak; 愈益暴露其才学的漏洞。And, of the industry he has spent upont, 这儿那儿把心血呕Must full as much some other way discount. 总免不了大打折扣。The Hebrew, Chaldee, and the Syriac 希伯来文、加尔蒂文和叙利亚文， Do, like their letters, set mens reason back, 一如其写法，让人理智颠倒And turn their wits that strive to understand it 若要竭力研读它(Like those that write the characters) left-handed. 就像用左手写字Yet he that is but able to express 然而，若要表达超前No sense at all in several languages, 根本不用几种语言Will pass for learneder than he thats known 用母语发出最强音To speak the strongest reason in his own.通常被认为更有学问 Butler 巴特勒1.The description种类 of persons who have the fewest ideas of all others are mere authors and readers人群中对周围事物了解最少的是那些只会写和读的人. It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. A lounger闲逛者 who is ordinarily seen with a book in his hand is (we may be almost sure) equally without the power or inclination to attend either to what passes around him or in his own mind.整日手捧书本而不务世事的人,我们几乎可以肯定,既无力也无心去关心他周围或脑子里的事物 Such a one may be said to carry his understanding about with him in his pocket, or to leave it at home on his library shelves. He is afraid of venturing on any train of一系列 reasoning他不敢做深思, or of striking out提出 any observation评论that is not mechanically suggested to him by passing his eyes over certain legible清晰的 characters他不敢做任何评论，除非他亲眼看到的文字机械地提议他这样做; shrinks from the fatigue of thought, which, for want of practice, becomes insupportable to him他害怕苦思冥想，因为他缺少实践，无从可想; and sits down contented with an endless, wearisome succession of words and half-formed模糊images, which fill the void空虚 of the mind, and continually efface 抹去one another.他整日独坐，满足于和那些冗长乏味的词句以及模糊不清的形象为伴，这些东西填充着他空虚的头脑，同时也不停彼此磨损、消失Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil陪衬to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge很多情况下，书本只是常识的陪衬真知的替补. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its st