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弗兰西斯·培根（Francis Bacon，1561——1626）与莎士比亚同时代的人，毕生好学深思，对近代唯物哲学及科学的思想方法曾有巨大的贡献。《论学习》选自其《论说文集》（Essays，随笔），这本书在英国文学中起着“开辟新园地，创立新风格”的作用。培根也成为随笔这一文学形式在英国的创始者。本文文笔简洁，却又寓意深刻，使读者既能掌握读书方法，又能欣赏原版英语，有着双倍收获。译者为已故北外教授王佐良先生。 Of studies

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discoures;and for ability ,is in the judgement 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 judement wholly by their rules,is the humour of a scholor. They perfect nature,and are perfected by experience:for nature abilities are like natural plants,that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forh directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.Crafty men contempt studies,simple men admire them,and wise men use them;for they teach not their own use;but that is a wisdom without them,and above them,won by observation.Read not to contradict and confute;nor to believe and take for granted;nor to find talk and discourse;but to weigh and consider.Some books are to be tasted,others to be swallowed,and some few to be chewed and digested;that is,some books are to be read only in

parts;others to be read,but not curiously;and some few to be read wholly,and with diligence and attention,Some books also may be read by deputy,and extracts made of them by others;but that would be only in the less important arguments,and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are,like common distilled waters,flashy


things.

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。有一技之长者鄙读书，无知者慕读书，惟明智之士用读书。而书又不以用处告人，用书之智不在书中，而在书外，全凭观察得之。读书时不可存心诘难作者，不可尽信书上所言，亦不可只为寻章摘句，而应推敲细思。书有可浅尝者，又可吞食者，少数则需咀嚼消化。换言之，有只须读其部分者，有只须大体涉猎者，少数则须全读，读时需全神贯注，孜孜不倦。书亦可请人代读，取其所作摘要，但只限题材较次或价值不高者，否则书经提炼犹如水经蒸馏，淡而无味矣。

Reading makes a full man;conference a ready man;and writing an exact man.And therefore ,if a man write little,he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little,he had need have much cunning,to seem to know that he does not.Histories make men wise;poets witty;the mathematics subtle;natural philosophy deep;moral grave;logic and rhetoric able to contend.Abeunt studia in mores(此为拉丁语引文，意为studies pass intothe characater;凡有所学，皆成性格).Nay there is no stand or impediment in the mind,but may be wrought out by fit studies:like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercise.Bowling is good for the stone and reins;shooting for the lungs and breast;gentle walking for the stomach ;riding for the head;and the like.So if a man’s wit be wandering,let him study the

mathematics;for in demonstration,if his wit be called away never so little,he must begin again.If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences ,let him study the schoolmen;for they are cymini sectores.If he be not apt to beat over matters,and

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