1、不要拋棄學(xué)問,不要拋棄學(xué)問 Never give up the pursuit of learning.,不要拋棄學(xué)問在這里的意思是不要放棄對學(xué)問的追求，因此不能直譯為 Never Give up Learning ，必須加字：Never Give up the Pursuit of Learning. 諸位畢業(yè)同學(xué)： Dear students of the Graduating Class, 你們現(xiàn)在要離開母校了，我沒有什么禮物送你們，只好送你們一句話罷。 As you are leaving your alma mater, I have nothing to offer you as

2、a gift except a word of advice. 這一句話是: “不要拋棄學(xué)問?！?My advice is, Never give up the pursuit of learning.“,以前的功課也許有一大部分是為了這張畢業(yè)文憑，不得已而做的，從今以后，你們可以依自己的心愿自由去研究了。趁現(xiàn)在年富力強的時候，努力做一種專門學(xué)問。 你們可以依自己的心愿自由去研究了譯為you are free to follow your own bent in the choice of studies，其中 to follow ones own bent 是成語，和 to follow o

3、nes inclination 同義，作做自己感興趣或愛做的事解。 做學(xué)問譯為 to go into scholarship, 等于 to engage in learning 。 You have perhaps finished your college courses mostly for obtaining the diploma, or, in other words, out of sheer necessity. However, from now on you are free to follow your own bent in the choice of studies.

4、While you are in the prime of life, why not devote yourselves to a special field of study?,少年是一去不復(fù)返的，等到精力衰時，要做學(xué)問也來不及了。 Youth will soon be gone never to return. And it will be too late for you to go into scholarship when in your declining years. 即為吃飯計，學(xué)問決不會辜負人的。吃飯而不求學(xué)問，三年五年之后，你們都要被后來少年淘汰掉的。到那時再想做點學(xué)問來

5、補救，恐怕已太晚了。 學(xué)問決不會辜負人的譯為 Knowledge will do you a good turn ，其中 to do one a good turn 是成語，作做對某人有益的事解。 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 have had yourselves replaced by young people. It will then be

6、 too late to remedy the situation by picking up studies again.,有人說：“出去做事之后，生活問題亟須解決，哪有工夫去讀書？即使要做學(xué)問，既沒有圖書館，又沒有實驗室，哪能做學(xué)問？” Some people say, Once you have a job, youll come up against the urgent problem of making a living. How can you manage to find time to study? Even if you want to, will it be possib

7、le with no library or laboratory available?,我要對你們說：凡是要等到有了圖書館方才讀書，有了圖書館也不肯讀書。凡是要等到有了實驗室方才做研究的，有了實驗室也不肯做研究。你有了決心要研究一個問題，自然會撙衣節(jié)食去買書，自然會想出法子來設(shè)置儀器。 撙衣節(jié)食即省吃省穿，現(xiàn)譯為 cut down on food and clothing, 其中 to cut down on 是成語，與 to economize on 同義，作節(jié)約解。又， 上語也可譯為 to live frugally. Now let me tell you this. Those who

8、 refuse to study for lack of a library will most probably continue to do so even though there is a library. And those who refuse to do research for lack of a laboratory will most probably continue to do so even though a laboratory is available. As long as you set your mind on studies, you will natur

9、ally cut down on food and clothing to buy books or do everything possible to acquire necessary instruments.,至于時間，更不成問題。達爾文一生多病，不能多作工，每天只能做一點鐘的工作。你看他的成績！每天花一點鐘看10頁有用的書，每年可看3600多頁書，30年可讀11萬頁書。 至于時間，更不成問題譯為 Time is no object, 其中 no object 是成語， 等于 no problem, 作不成問題或不在話下解。 Time is no object. Charles Darw

10、in could only work one hour a day due to ill health. Yet what a remarkable man he was! If you spend one hour a day reading 10 pages of a book, you can finish more than 3,600 pages a year, and 110,000 pages in 30 years.,諸位，11萬頁書可以使你成一個學(xué)者了。可是，每天看三種小報也得費你一點鐘的工夫，四圈麻將也得費你一點半鐘的光陰?？葱竽?？還是打麻將呢？還是努力做一個學(xué)者呢？全靠

11、你們自己的選擇！ 全靠你們自己的選擇譯為 the choice lies with you 或 it is up to you to make the choice. Dear students, 110000 pages will be quite enough to make a learned man of you. It will take you one hour to read three tabloids a day, and one and half hours to finish four rounds of mah-jong a day. Reading tabloids, playing mah-jongs or striving to be a learned man, the choice lies with you.,易卜生說：你的最大責任是把你這塊材料鑄造成器。“ Henrik Ibsen says, Its your supreme duty to cast yourself into a useful implement. 學(xué)問便是鑄器的工具。拋棄了學(xué)問便是毀了你們自己。 Learning is the casting mould. Forsake learning, and you will rui