【100天英文散文背诵计划】第一篇：培根 《论学习》-2| 英语原文带注解
文中“/”是我根据稿件BV1NX4y1V7rR的朗读来进行划分的停顿号，当然也有基于自己的朗读习惯；文中的注释是我自己个人的理解，不一定是对的，若有错误欢迎指出。
They perfect （v.使…完美，完善）nature, and are/ perfected by experience: for natural abilities /are like natural plants, that need/ pruning（prune/pru:n/ v.删除，删节；修剪〔树枝〕；n.梅干，（洋）李脯）/ by study; and studies themselves/ do give forth（ad.向外，往外；往前） directions/ too much/ at large, except that/ they/ be bounded（a.受（某事物）约束） in/ by experience. 经验与学习
Crafty（a.诡计多端的，狡猾） men/ contemn（v. 蔑视；侮辱）/ 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（v.反驳，驳斥）/ and confute（v.驳倒，完全否定）; 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（a.勤奋的，勤勉的）/ and attention. Some books/ also may be read/ by deputy（请人代表）, and extracts（n.节录；选段） /made of them/ by others; but/ that would be/ only in the less important arguments, and the meaner/ sort of books; else distilled（adj. 由蒸馏得来的） books/ are,like common distilled waters, flashy（a.俗艳的;浮华的;招摇的；） things.
Reading/ maketh 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（v.商谈;商议;交换意见；） little, he had/ need have/ a present wit（n.头脑；智慧；）; and if he read little, he had/ need have/ much cunning（a.狡猾的，狡诈的 ）, to seem/ to know/ that he doth（does的一种形式） not.
Histories/ make men wise; poets/ witty（a.说话风趣的；妙趣横生的）; the mathematics /subtile（adj. [古]微妙的；狡猾的；敏锐的；隐约的）; natural philosophy/ deep; moral/ grave; logic /and rhetoric（n.修辞;修辞学；） able to contend（v. 处理;对付;解决；声称;争辩;主张；竞争;争夺；）. Abeunt studia in morse.
Nay /there is no stand/ or impediment （n.〔生理问题导致的〕言语[听觉，行动]障碍）/in the wit, but may be wrought（work在旧时的过去式和过去分词） out/ by fit studies: like as diseases/ of the body/ may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone/ and reins（n. 肾脏；腰部；感情；肺腑）; shooting/ for the lungs /and breast; gentle walking/ for the stomach; riding/ for the head; and the like. So/ if a man's wit/ be wandering（徘徊，闲逛；）, let him study the mathematics; for/ in demonstrations, if his wit /be called away/ never so little, he must begin again. If his wit/ be not apt/ to distinguish/ or find differences, let him study/ the schoolmen（n. 学校教师；经院哲学家；教授 经院哲学 Scholasticism）; for they/ are cymini sectores（句中“cymini sectores”来自拉丁语，英文释义是“dividers of cumin seeds，or hair-splitters”，从 这样的解释中可以体现出经院哲学家们工作的精细程度。来自 <https://www.fx361.com/page/2017/1220/2589702.shtml> ）. If he/ be not apt/ to beat over matters, and/ to call up（ (陆、海、空军)征召…入伍；；选中,挑选(…参加运动队)；） one thing/ to/ prove and illustrate/ another, let him study the lawyers' cases. So every defect（缺点，缺陷，毛病） of the mind/ may have/ a special receipt.
