培根美文集Of Studies英文带翻译

    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。。。。。。
　　

读书足以怡情，足以傅彩，足以长才。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；其长才也，最见于处世判事之际。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。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。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，读书然后知如何修剪移接；而书中所示，如不以经验范之，则又大而无当。。。。。。