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1、第四册4.1. To Spring 寄给春天的诗Oh you, sweet Spring, alight from cherubs wing,And put the ugly winter full to flight;And rouse the earth to smile, and larks to sing,With skies so bright and hearts of youth so light.Your gentle and genial breaths each blossom blow,While bees in gardens hum the lullabies.The
2、 hills and dales are strippd of mantles of snow,And streams and rivers freed from irons of ice.May seasons all be Spring-the pride of years,That all the thing would eer in glories gleam!May men be ever in the prime of years!But dream, however sweet, is but a dream.If happy when you come and sad when
3、 gone,Would that youd never come or never gone!啊，甜蜜的春天，从小天使翅上轻降，吓得讨厌的冬天狼狈逃窜；唤醒了万物-大地微笑，云雀歌唱，天空多明亮，青年的心多欢畅。你和煦的呼吸吹开一朵朵花苞，引来蜂儿在花园里把催眠曲吟唱。山岗和山谷脱去了积雪的斗篷，溪涧和河川挣开了冰结的镣铐。但愿四季皆春-一年的最好时光，世界万物就会永远灿烂辉煌！但愿人人永葆青春年华，可是梦境再甜蜜，不过是梦儿一场。如果你来了就快乐，去了就悲伤，倒不如压根儿别来也别往。4.2. Of Studies Studies serve for delight, for ornament
4、al, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, 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 marshal
5、ling 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 humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, natural plants, that need proyning by study; and studies the
6、mselves 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
7、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 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 b
8、e 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 maketh a fu
9、ll 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; an if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets
10、witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies: like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for th
11、e stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a mans wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distingu
12、ish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. By Francis Bacon4.3. The Influ
13、ence of Literature 文学的感染力I will tell you what literature is! NoI only wish I could. But I cant. No one can. Gleams can be thrown on the secret, inklings given, but no more. I will try to give you an inkling. And, to do so, I will take you back into your own history, or forward into it. That evening
14、when you went for a walk with your faithful friend, the friend from whom you hid nothingor almost nothing .! You were, in truth, somewhat inclined to hide from him the particular matter which monopolized your mind that evening, but somehow you contrived to get on to it, drawn by an overpowering fasc
15、ination. And as your faithful friend was sympathetic and discreet, and flattered you by a respectful curiosity, you proceeded further and further into the said matter, growing more and more confidential, until at last you cried out, in a terrific whisper: “My boy, she is simply miraculous!” At that
16、moment you were in the domain of literature.Let me explain. Of course, in the ordinary acceptation of the word, she was not miraculous. Your faithful friend had never noticed that she was miraculous, nor had about forty thousand other fairly keen observers. She was just a girl. Troy (注：特洛伊城 )had not been burnt for her. A girl cannot be called a miracle. If a girl is to be called a miracle, then you might call pretty nearly anything a miracle. That is just it: you mig
