說開卷有益
郁達(dá)夫

開卷有益，是古人獎勵讀書的一句成語。從前讀到一冊壞書，讀后每覺得為古人所欺；現(xiàn)在多了一點智識，反過來又覺得古人的不欺我了。總之，好書讀了，原有所得，就是可以知道它的好處在哪里。可是壞書讀了，而知道它的壞的原因與地方，豈不也是一得？從前孔子說的“三人行，必有我?guī)煛敝猓膊灰欢ㄊ菑恼囊环矫嬷耄催^來在負(fù)的一方面，也何嘗不可以為鑒戒。因此，從前是非有定評之書不讀的，現(xiàn)在卻馬勃牛溲了，一例的都想看看了，這大約總也是一種進(jìn)步的現(xiàn)象。

On "Reading Is Always Beneficial"
Yu Dafu

"Reading is always beneficial" is an old idiom first used by our ancients to urge people to do morereading. I used to blame the ancients for misleading me whenever I finished reading a bad book. Now I know better than to do that. Of course we profit from a good book because, by reading it, we know why it is good. But, on the other hand, after reading a bad book, we know all the whysand wherefores of its being bad. Isn't that something of benefit to us too? Confucius says, "Whenthree walk together, there must be one who can be my teacher." However, it doesn't necessarilyfollow that one of the three is always a teacher by positive example; on the contrary, he could bea teacher by negative example for us to take warning from. Therefore, that people nowadays havetaken to reading whatever books they like, trashy or not, including those already generally judgedto be good or bad, is probably an indication of social progress.