英语标准美文100篇 068
时间：2018-11-30 作者：英语课 分类：英语标准美文100篇
On study
Studies serve for delight, for ornament 1, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in
privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse 2; and for ability, is in the judgment 3,and disposition 4 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 5; to use them toomuch for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of ascholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are likenatural plants, that need proyning, by study; and studies themselves, do give forthdirections too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty 6 mencontemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not theirown 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 7; 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 8 books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh 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 doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty 9; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic 10 and rhetoric 11 able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores 12.
- The flowers were put on the table for ornament.花放在桌子上做装饰用。
- She wears a crystal ornament on her chest.她的前胸戴了一个水晶饰品。
- We'll discourse on the subject tonight.我们今晚要谈论这个问题。
- He fell into discourse with the customers who were drinking at the counter.他和站在柜台旁的酒客谈了起来。
- The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people.主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
- He's a man of excellent judgment.他眼力过人。
- He has made a good disposition of his property.他已对财产作了妥善处理。
- He has a cheerful disposition.他性情开朗。
- Absence of competition makes for sloth.没有竞争会导致懒惰。
- The sloth spends most of its time hanging upside down from the branches.大部分时间里树懒都是倒挂在树枝上。
- He admired the old man for his crafty plan.他敬佩老者的神机妙算。
- He was an accomplished politician and a crafty autocrat.他是个有造诣的政治家，也是个狡黠的独裁者。
- He looked curiously at the people.他好奇地看着那些人。
- He took long stealthy strides. His hands were curiously cold.他迈着悄没声息的大步。他的双手出奇地冷。
- The televised interview was distilled from 16 hours of film. 那次电视采访是从16个小时的影片中选出的精华。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Gasoline is distilled from crude oil. 汽油是从原油中提炼出来的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Her witty remarks added a little salt to the conversation.她的妙语使谈话增添了一些风趣。
- He scored a bull's-eye in their argument with that witty retort.在他们的辩论中他那一句机智的反驳击中了要害。
- What sort of logic is that?这是什么逻辑？
- I don't follow the logic of your argument.我不明白你的论点逻辑性何在。