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LESSON 92 STUDIES
第九十二課 論學問
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.
學問的用途體現在娛樂、裝點門面和增長能力上。
Their chief use for delight is in privateness, and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse;
在娛樂上學問的主要用處是處靜而心安；在裝點門面上學問的用處在于辭令；
and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business;
在增長能力上學問的用處則體現在對事務的判斷和駕馭上；
for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of the particulars, one by one;
因為能干的人令行即動，也許對特別的事情要一件一件地進行判斷；
but the general counsels, and the plots and marshaling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
但是，概括性的議論以及對事物的謀劃與安排，皆系有才學的人所為。
To spend too much time in studies, is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation;
在學問上花過多時間系偷懶的表現，把學問過多用于裝點門面是虛假；
to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar;
完全依學問上的規則而斷事是書生的詼諧之舉；
they perfect nature and are perfected by experience,
學問歷練天性，而其本身又受經驗的歷練，
for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study;
因為人的自然能力恰似自然狀態下手的花草植物，需要學問的修剪；
and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
而學問本身，除非受經驗的限制，不然的話指引的綱挈未免失于籠統。
Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use;
狡猾的人蔑視學問，頭腦簡單的人則羨慕學問，聰明的人懂得如何運用。這是因為，學問不會教人們如何運用；
but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
這是學問以外而高于學問的一種智慧，系由觀察獲得。
