Directions: Read the following passage carefully and then translate
each underlined part into Chinese.
61. Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at
very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred by nature upon
few, and the labor of learning those sciences which may, by mere labor be
obtained, is too great to be willingly endured; but every man can exert such
judgment as be has upon the works of others; and he whom nature has made weak,
and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a
critic. 62. I hope it will give comfort to great numbers
who are passing through the world in obscurity, when I inform them how easily
distinction may be obtained. All the other powers of literature are coy and
haughty; they must be long courted and at last are not always gained; but
Criticism is a goddess easy of access and forward of advance, who will meet the
slow and encourage the timorous; the want of meaning she supplies with words,
and the want of spirit she recompenses with malignity. 63.
This profession has one recommendation peculiar to itself, that it gives vent
to malignity without real mischief. No genius was ever blasted by the breath of
critics. Tire poison which, if confined, would have burst the heart fumes away
in empty hisses, and malice is set at ease with very little danger to merit. The
critic is the only man whose triumph is without another’s pain and whose
greatness does not rise upon another’s ruin. 64. To a
study at once so easy and so reputable, so malicious and so harmless, it cannot
be necessary to invite my readers by a long or labored exhortation; it is
sufficient, since all would be critics if they could, to show by one eminent
example that all can be critics if they will.