“現(xiàn)在年輕的學(xué)生,，甚至年輕的教師寫出來的英文味道就有些不對了,，你說語法錯吧，也不見得錯,，就是味道不對,、感覺不對，原因就是他們閱讀不夠,。語言學(xué)習(xí)其實是一種語言感覺的培養(yǎng),，你中文為什么說得這么好、這么流利，其實就是一個潛移默化的過程,，長期暴露在語言的環(huán)境里,，有了足夠的input才會有比較好的output，而不是刻意地去練習(xí)口語,、寫作,。”

作為上外的學(xué)生,，我們應(yīng)該反思一下,，進(jìn)入大學(xué)這些年來，英語的書籍看了多少,？哪些是自己主動閱讀的,？那些經(jīng)典你有看過幾本？李教授笑著和我們分享了他在閱讀過程中的一個小故事,，看了這么多年書,，有一本叫Vanity Fair的書，他始終沒有讀完,，耐心不夠,，內(nèi)容也太過緩慢，所以就罷了,。的確,，有些名著的內(nèi)容不是那么有趣，篇幅也長,，不值得深究,，但是我們也不能真的一問三不知。

在采訪李基安教授的短短一個小時里,，我們受益良多,，要學(xué)好一門外語，應(yīng)該學(xué)會將閱讀變?yōu)樯畹囊环N習(xí)慣,，堅持下去就會有長足的進(jìn)步,。在最后，李教授選擇為我們朗讀的是Francis Bacon的Of Study節(jié)選,，其中飽含了他對上外學(xué)子的期待,，希望大家能深刻了解李教授的良苦用心，把握大好的青春時光,，在上外學(xué)有所獲,。

STUDIES serve 

for delight, for ornament, and for ability. 

讀書

足以怡情，足以傅彩,，足以長才。

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. 

其怡情也，最見于獨處幽居之時,；

其傅彩也,，最見于高談闊論之中；

其長才也,，最見于處世判事之際,。

For expert men can execute, 

and perhaps judge of particulars, 

one by one; 

but the general counsels, 

and the plots and marshalling of affairs, 

come best from those that are learned. 

練達(dá)之士雖能分別處理細(xì)事

或一一判別枝節(jié)，

然縱觀統(tǒng)籌,，全局策劃,，

則舍好學(xué)深思者莫屬。

To spend too much time in studies 

is sloth; 

to use them too much for ornament, 

is affectation; 

to make judgment wholly by their rules, 

is the humour of a scholar. 

讀書費時過多易惰,，

文采藻飾太盛則矯,，

全憑條文斷事乃學(xué)究故態(tài)。

They perfect nature, 

and are perfected by experience: 

for natural abilities are like natural plants, 

that need pruning by study; 

and studies themselves 

do give forth directions too much at large, 

except they be bounded in by experience. 

讀書補(bǔ)天然之不足,，

經(jīng)驗又補(bǔ)讀書之不足,，

蓋天生才干猶如自然花草，

讀書然后知如何修剪移接,，

而書中所示,，

如不以經(jīng)驗范之，則又大而無當(dāng),。

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. 

有一技之長者鄙讀書,，

無知者羨讀書，

唯明智之士用讀書,，

然書并不以用處告人,，

用書之智不在書中，

而在書外,，全憑觀察得之,。

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. 

書有可淺嘗者，

有可吞食者,，

少數(shù)則須咀嚼消化,。

換言之，

有只需讀其部分者,，

有只需大體涉獵者,，

少數(shù)則須全讀，

讀時須全神貫注,，孜孜不倦,。

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 common distilled waters, flashy things.

書亦可請人代讀，

取其所作摘要,，

但只限題材較次或價值不高者,，

否則書經(jīng)提煉猶如水經(jīng)蒸餾,，淡而無味。

Reading makes a full man; 

conference a ready man; 

and writing an exact man. 

讀書使人充實,，

討論使人機(jī)智,，

筆記使人準(zhǔn)確。

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 does not. 

因此

不常做筆記者須記憶力特強(qiáng),，

不常討論者須天生聰穎,，

不常讀書者須欺世有術(shù)，

始能無知而顯有知,。