读书足以怡情，足以傅彩，足以长才 英文原版

STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

　　[培根美文集]-Of Studies
　　2006-5-9 10:51:10 来源:搜狐网

　　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 judgment, 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 judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning, by study; and studies themselves, do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience......

　　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