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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

博学-从书中抖出的灰尘变成了一个空头骨。

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In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.

在文学的旧时代，只有厚脸皮的人才敢进入文学批评的舞台。批评一个人的作品需要同样的博学和智慧，而拙劣的批评家常常成为讽刺和嘲笑的对象。

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Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

学问是一回事，苦差是另一回事。我很快得出结论，没有什么能吸引我去阅读，更不用说做笔记了，成百上千本非常、非常、非常无聊的书。

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Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

学者们长期以来一直梦想着建立一个包含所有已被写过的东西的通用图书馆。

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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

公正的求知欲是真正文明的生命力。

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Scholars talk books, butchers talk pigs.

学者谈书，屠夫谈猪。

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