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智课网IELTS备考资料雅思阅读材料之最聪明的愚夫 出国英语考试有哪些 雅思6.5是什么水平 雅思阅读评分标准 托福阅读评分标准 雅思和托福的区别 IT IS not quite clear whether it was Henry IV of France or—more likely—his chief minister, the Duc de Sully, who described James I (of England, VI of Scotland) as “the wisest fool in Christendom”. It is not even clear what prompted the coining of the epithet, though James (above) was certainly a mixture of opposites of every kind. In the words of Sir Walter Scott, 目前我们尚不完全清楚把英格兰詹姆士1世（或可称为苏格兰詹姆士6世）形容成“基督教王国中最聪明的笨伯”（见译注1） 的人，到底是法国国王亨利4世，还是他的财政大臣德?苏利。我们甚至不知道什么导致了这个称呼的出现，尽管（上面提到的）詹姆士绝对是一个个性矛盾的集合体。用沃尔特?斯科特（Walter Scott）的话来说， He was deeply learned, without possessing useful knowledge; sagacious in many individual cases, without having real wisdom...He was fond of his dignity, while he was perpetually degrading it by undue familiarity; capable of much public labour, yet often neglecting it for the meanest amusement; a wit, though a pedant; and a scholar, though fond of the conversation of the ignorant and uneducated...He was laborious in trifles, and a trifler where serious labour was required; devout in his sentiments, and yet too often profane in his language... 他学识极为渊博，掌握的却是没用的知识；洞察许多个人事理，却缺乏大智慧……他看重自己的身份，却又随和过度，失了体面；他有能力处理国务，却又时常玩物丧志；他风趣却又刻板；他是个学者，却又喜欢谈论愚昧无礼的话题……他费心于琐事，却又动辄耗费大批劳力；他笃信自己的情感，却又经常对此出言不逊…… In short, he was a fool. Yet he was also wise. 简言之，他既是愚夫，也是才子。 That made him a much rarer bird than the foolish brainbox—the egg-head who, as a child, takes every prize for scholastic achievement but cannot be trusted to tie his shoelaces, or cross a road, let alone take charge of anything. Such people are indubitably clever. They are the ones who, later on in life, may work out in their heads every kind of intellectual puzzle and show off every arcane piece of knowledge. They may shine at mental long division and be able to expatiate upon the workings of machines or the writings of scholars. But of judgment—everyday, practical judgment of men and human affairs—they have none