培根美文集Of Studies英文帶翻譯

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。 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。 To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament， is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules， is the humor of a scholar。 They perfect nature， and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants， that need proyning， by study; and studies themselves， do give forth directions too much at large， except they be bounded in by experience。。。。。。

讀書足以怡情，足以傅彩，足以長才。其怡情也，最見於獨處幽居之時；其傅彩也，最見於高談闊論之中；其長才也，最見於處世判事之際。練達之士雖能分別處理細事或一一判別枝節，然縱觀統籌、全域性策劃，則舍好學深思者莫屬。讀書費時過多易惰，文采藻飾太盛則矯，全憑條文斷事乃學究故態。讀書補天然之不足，經驗又補讀書之不足，蓋天生才幹猶如自然花草，讀書然後知如何修剪移接；而書中所示，如不以經驗範之，則又大而無當。。。。。。