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星火英语六级晨读美文第23篇:Of Studies

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Passage 23. 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 discourse; 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 judgement wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants,that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Crafty men contemn 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. 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.  

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discourse ['diskɔ:s,dis'kɔ:s]

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n. 谈话,演讲
vi. 谈话,讲述

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rhetoric ['retərik]

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n. 修辞,华丽虚饰的语言,修辞学

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witty ['witi]

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adj. 富于机智的,诙谐的

 
contradict [.kɔntrə'dikt]

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vt. 反驳,与 ... 矛盾

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grave [greiv]

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n. 坟墓,墓穴
adj. 严肃的,严重的,庄

 
affectation [.æfek'teiʃn]

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n. 假装,虚饰,做作

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diligence ['dilidʒəns]

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n. 勤奋

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conference ['kɔnfərəns]

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n. 会议,会谈,讨论会,协商会

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except [ik'sept]

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vt. 除,除外
prep. & conj.

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confer [kən'fə:]

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vi. 商讨
vt. 赠予,授予

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