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【中译英】 1 1 （11）不要抛弃学问（胡适） 诸位毕业同学： 你们现在要离开母校了，我没有什么礼物送你们，只好送你们一句话罢。 这一句话是：“不要抛弃学问。”以前的功课也许有一大部分是为了毕业文凭，不得已而 做的，从今以后，你们可以依自己的心愿去自由研究了。趁现在年富力强的时候，努力做一 种专门学问。少年是一去不复返的，等到精力衰时，要做学问也来不及了。即为吃饭计，学 问绝不会辜负人的。吃饭而不求学问，三年五年之后，你们都要被后来的少年淘汰掉的。到 那时再想做点学问来补救，恐怕已太晚了。 有人说：“出去做事之后，生活问题急需解决，哪有工夫去读书？即使要做学问，既没 有图书馆，又没有实验室，哪能做学问？” 我要对你们说：凡是要等到有了图书馆方才读书的，有了图书馆也不肯读书。凡是要 等到有了实验室方才做研究的，有了实验室也不肯做研究。你有了决心要研究一个问题，自 然会撙衣节食去买书，自然会想出法子来设置仪器。 至于时间，更不成问题。达尔文一生多病，不能多工作，每天只能做一点钟的工作。你们看 他的成绩！每天化一点钟看10 有用的书，每年可看3600 多面书，30年可读11万页书。 诸位，11万页书可以使你成一个学者了。可是，每天看三种小报也得花费你一点钟的 工夫，四圈麻将也得费你一点半钟的光阴。看小报呢？还是打麻将呢？不是努力做一个学者 呢？全靠你们自己的选择！ 易卜生说：“你的最大责任是把你这块材料铸造成器。” 学问便是铸器的工具。抛弃了学问便是毁了你自己。 再会了！你们的母校眼睁睁地要看你们十年之后成什么器。 【参考译文】 Never Give up thePursuit ofLearning Dear Studentsof theGraduating Class: As you are leaving your alma mater, I have nothing to offer you as a gift except a word of advice. My advice is, “Never give up the pursuit of learning.” You have perhaps finished your college courses mostly for obtaining the diploma, that is, out of sheer necessity. However, from now on you are free to follow your personal bent in the choice of studies. While you are in the prime of life, why notdevote yourselves to aspecial field of study?Youthwill soon be gone never to return. And it will be too bate for you to go into scholarship when in your declining years. Knowledge will do you a good turn even as a means of subsistence. If you give up studies while holding a job, you will in a couple of years find yourselves replaced by younger people. It will then betoo late to remedythe situation bypicking upstudiesagain. Some people say, “Onceyou have a ,you’ll comeup againstthe urgentproblem ofmaking a living. How canyou manage to find time tostudy? Even if you wantto,will it be possible with no library orlaboratoryavailable?” Now let me tell you: Those who refuse to study for lack of a library will most probably continue to do so even