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Of Study 论读书 Francis Bacon 王佐良译 Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. 读书足以怡情，足以傅彩，足以长才。 Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in 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 discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. 长才也，最见于处世判事之际。 For expert and execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the 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， general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best form 则舍好学深思者莫属。 those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgement wholly by their rules, is the humour of a 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。 scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are 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， like natural plants, that need proyning (pruning) by study; and studies 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 themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded 当。 in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; 有一技之长者鄙读书，无知者羡读书，唯明智之士用读书，然书并不以 for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above 用处告人，用书之智不在书中，而在书外，全凭观察得之。 them, won by observation. Re