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读书足够可以使人心情愉快，足够可以让你说话、写文章用到成语或优美的句子，显得你说话、写文章有文化，读书足够可以增长你的才干。读书让人精神愉快，在可以在一个人独处独住的时候表现出来，一个人容易孤独，读点书，让你快乐。
读书增长文采，最可以在和别人谈论问题的时候表现出来，读书增长才干，最可以在判断、处理社会事情的时候表现出来。精通世事（会办事）的人虽然能够处理好细事或者判断事情的某一部分对不对，然而（但是）要从全局计划，就一定要喜爱学习深入思考的人才能做到。
（会办事的人会做好小事，爱读书思考的人才能做好大事。）读书太慢的人驰惰，文章中用的修饰行的文辞太多了显得不真实，全靠书本上说的来做事是书呆子。读书可以补天赋的不足，经验可以补充读书的不足。
大概生来就有的才干就像自然生长的花草，长的很乱，读书了才能知道怎样去修剪它的形状，而书上说的，如果不用经验来检验，就不适当。狡猾的人看不起读书，不知道知识的人羡慕读书，只有明智的人利用读书。
但是书并不告诉你她的用处是什么，利用读书的智慧不在书里，而在书外，全靠自己观察思考读书的时候得到。读书不可以存心质疑作者，不可以全信书上说的话，也不可以只抓住文章的几句话来理解，而应该仔细思考。
书有可以稍微读一点的，又可以粗略读大概内容的，少数的书要细细品味，学习写法，化成自己的东西。换句话说，有的书只要读一部分，有的书只要读大体意思，少数的要全读，读的时候要专心、不烦、坚持。
书也可以找人代替你读，拿他写的摘要（概括主要内容的话），但是只能是题材不好或价值不高的书可以这样做。不然的话，书提炼出概要就像水经过了蒸馏，没有滋味了。 读书让人变得充实，讨论让人变得机智，作文让人变得准确。
所以不常常写作文的人一定要记忆力特别强，不常常讨论的人一定要智商高，不常常读书的人一定要会欺骗的方法，才能让他们的无知显得有知识。读历史书让人明智，读诗歌让人聪明，数学让人思维周密，科学让人深刻，关于道德的学说让人沉稳庄重。
逻辑修辞的学问让人善于辩论，凡是你学的东西，都会对你的性格有影响。不仅如此，精神上的各种缺陷，都可以通过求知来改善——正如身体上的缺陷，可能通过适当的运动来改善一样。例如打球有利于腰背，射箭可扩胸利肺，散步则有助于消化，骑术使人反应敏捷等等。
同样道理，一个思维不集中的人，他可以研习数学，因为数学稍不仔细就会出错。缺乏分析判断的人，他可以研习而上学，因为这门学问最讲究细琐的辩证。不善于推理的人，可以研习法律案例。如此等等。这种心灵上的缺陷，都可以通过学习而得到改善。
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在读书的意义和作用方面培根有十分精辟的论述：“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，最见于高谈阔论之中；其长才也，最见于处世判事之际。”
“读史使人明智，读诗使人灵秀，数学使人周密，科学使人深刻，伦理学使人庄重，逻辑修辞之学使人善辨，凡有所学皆成性格。”培根说：“人的天性像是野生的花草，读书像是修剪移栽。一个没有目标没有重点盲目读书的人，最终只能成为书的奴隶。”
读书方法上培根注重理论与实践相结合，“运用的方法乃在书本之外，这是一门技艺，不经实验就不能学到。”培根说：“有的书只要读其中的一部分，有的书只须知其中梗概即可，而对一些好书则要反复地读。
《培根论读书》对读书的意义、作用和方法都作了透彻的论述，今天，无论是读书治学还是掌握现代先进的科学技术，都是值得我们借鉴的。我想，做到爱读书，会读书，这样才能读好书，才能学好知识
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Of Study ——《论读书》Francis Bacon 王佐良 翻译 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.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，最见于高谈阔论之中；其长才也，最见于处世判事之际。For expert and execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, e best form those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgement wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar.练达之士虽能分别处理细事或一一判别枝节，然纵观统筹，全局策划，则舍好学深思者莫属。
读书费时过多易惰，文采藻饰太盛则矫，全凭条文断事乃学究故态。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.读书补天然之不足，经验又补读书之不足，盖天生才干犹如自然花草，读书然后知如何修剪移接，而书中所示，如不以经验范之，则又大而无当。
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.有一技之长者鄙读书，无知者羡读书，唯明智之士用读书，然书并不以用处告人，用书之智不在书中，而在书外，全凭观察得之。Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.读书时不可存心诘难读者，不可尽信书上所言，亦不可只为寻章摘句，而应推敲细思。
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 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 mon distilled waters, flashy things.书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。换言之，有只需读其部分者，有只须大体涉猎者，少数则须全读，读时须全神贯注，孜孜不倦。
书亦可请人代读，取其所作摘要，但只限题材较次或价值不高者，否则书经提炼犹如水经蒸馏，淡而无味。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 little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.读书使人充实，讨论使人机智，笔记使人准确。
因此不常做笔记者须记忆力特强，不常讨论者须天生聪颖，不常读书者须欺世有术，始能无知而显有知。Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in morse.读史使人明智，读诗使人灵秀，数学使人周密，科学使人深刻，伦理学使人庄重，逻辑修辞之学使人善辩；凡有所学，皆成性格。
Nay there is no stand 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 the stone and reins; 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, 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; 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.人之才智但有滞碍，无不可读适当之书使之顺畅，一如身体百病，皆可借相宜之运动除之。滚球利睾肾，射箭利胸肺，慢步利肠胃，骑术利头脑，诸如此类。
如智力不集中，可令读数学，盖演题需全神贯注，稍有分散即须重演；如不能辩异，可令读经院哲学，盖是辈皆吹毛求疵之人；如不善求同，不善以一物阐证另一物，可令读律师之案卷。如此头脑中凡有缺陷，皆有特效可医。
译者简介：王佐良先生，1916年2月12日生，诗人、翻译家、教授、英国文学研究专家，北京外国语学院副院长。1939年毕业于西南联合大学外语系（原清华大学外语系），留校任教，1947年赴英国牛津大学为攻读英国文学研究生。
专于英。
论友谊（培根） “唯有圣人与野兽，才能在孤独中，自得其乐。”
——这句话表达的观点，有对有错。对社会的恨，对社会的排斥，这种倾向，不管出现在谁身上，都是 *** 的表现，并没有什么神圣的成分。
除非他离群索居，不是为了享受孤独带来的快乐，而是出于对更高级的交流的追求。在一些异教徒身上，这样的追求徒有虚名，比如加拿大人艾皮蒙埃德、罗马人努摩、西西里岛人埃皮多科，以及他拿人阿婆罗诺。
只有为数不多的古代隐士与及圣洁的神父，才让我们看到这样的追求的存在。人们很少能明白，孤独为何物，孤独存于何处。
熙攘的人群中，没有你的同伴，那里没有爱：目光所触，一张张好像是从美术展览馆的图像上复制下来的脸孔，冷若冰霜；耳朵所闻，那些高谈阔论，跟钹发出的叮咚声没什么区别。拉丁语里有句格言，也表达相似的意思：一座城市，一片荒野。
这是因为，居住在大城市里，可以做朋友的人散落在大街小巷，与你比邻而居的情况，少之又少。进一步说，纯粹而惨淡的孤独，就是对真正朋友的渴求——没有朋友，世界就是一片荒野，空虚而寂寥。
天性注定一些人永远与友谊无缘，这也是一种孤独；但这种孤独，与野兽的孤独相同，无关人性。 人有悲欢离合。
友谊之重要在于，它能够稀释排解我们心头郁结的情绪。因阻塞而引起的疾病，对我们身体的危害尤大，远甚于思想上的闭塞。
萨洒（药名，音译）清肝，铁能通脾，硫磺的气味通肺，卡脱露（药名，音译）明脑。唯有朋友，才能让人敞开心扉，除此外别无他物。
你将与他一起，带着向善的心情，分担悲伤、恐惧、怀疑，分享欢乐、希望、忠告。 原文： Of friendship IT HAD been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, Whatsoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. For it is most true, that a natural and secret hatred, and aversation towards society, in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast; but it is most untrue, that it should have any character at all, of the divine nature; except it proceed, not out of a pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and desire to sequester a man's self, for a higher conversation: such as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen; as Epimenides the Canadian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really, in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not pany; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little: Magna civitas , magna solitudo; because in a great town friends are scattered; so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings, and suffocations, are the most dangerous in the body; and it is not much otherwise in the mind; you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flowers of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt opeh the heart, but a true friend; to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.。
呵呵，培根随笔是人教版9年级的推荐书诶 ，我正好也在看.
《培根随笔》内容简介
培根的一生是追求知识的一生，也是追求权力的一生。作业一个兼哲学家、文学家、法官和政治家于一身的培根，其思想复杂，面目多变。我们从这本薄薄的《随笔集》中，能读出种种味道，你可以把它当作生活交友的教科书，也可以把它看成混迹官场的厚黑学。
是一本培根随笔全集。收录了谈真理、谈高位、谈无神论、谈君权、谈拖延、谈革新、谈话语、谈美、谈党派、谈虚荣等。
从“论真理”、“论死亡”、“论人的天性”等篇章中，可以看到一个热爱哲学的培根。从“论高官”、“论王权”、“论野心”等篇章中，可以看到一个热衷于政治，深谙官场运作的培根。从“论爱情”、“论友情”、“论婚姻与独身”等篇章中，可以看到一个富有生活情趣的培根。从“论逆境”、“论幸运”、“论残疾”等篇章中，可以看到一个自强不息的培根。从“论作伪与掩饰”、“论言谈”等篇章中，可以看到一个工于心计、老于世故的培根。
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 judgement and disposition of business. 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，最见于高谈阔论之中；其长才也，最见于处世判事之际。 For ecpert and execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, e best form those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgement wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. 练达之士虽能分别处理细事或一一判别枝节，然纵观统筹，全局策划， 则舍好学深思者莫属。
读书费时过多易惰，文采藻饰太盛则矫，全凭条文断事乃学究故态。 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. 读书补天然之不足，经验又补读书之不足，盖天生才干犹如自然花草，读书然后知如何修剪移接，而书中所示，如不以经验范之，则又大而无当。
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. 有一技之长者鄙读书，无知者羡读书，唯明智之士用读书，然书并不以用处告人，用书之智不在书中，而在书外，全凭观察得之。 Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. 读书时不可存心诘难读者，不可尽信书上所言，亦不可只为寻章摘句，而应推敲细思。
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 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 mon distilled waters, flashy things. 书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。换言之，有只需读其部分者，有只须大体涉猎者，少数则须全读，读时须全神贯注，孜孜不倦。
书亦可请人代读，取其所作摘要，但只限题材较次或价值不高者，否则书经提炼犹如水经蒸馏，淡而无味。 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 little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. 读书使人充实，讨论使人机智，笔记使人准确。
因此不常做笔记者须记忆力特强，不常讨论者须天生聪颖，不常读书者须欺世有术，始能无知而显有知。 Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in morse. 读史使人明智，读诗使人灵秀，数学使人周密，科学使人深刻，伦理学使人庄重，逻辑修辞之学使人善辩；凡有所学，皆成性格。
Nay there is no stand or impendiment 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 the stone and reins; 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, 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; 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. 人之才智但有滞碍，无不可读适当之书使之顺畅，一如身体百病，皆可借相宜之运动除之。滚球利睾肾，射箭利胸肺，慢步利肠胃，骑术利头脑，诸如此类。
如智力不集中，可令读数学，盖演题需全神贯注，稍有分散即须重演；如不能辩异，可令读经院哲学，盖是辈皆吹毛求疵之人；如不善求同，不善以一物阐证另一物，可令读律师之案卷。如此头脑中凡有缺陷，皆有特效可医。