1. 英譯漢

　　Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.　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.

　　For expert and execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best form those that are learned.

　　To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgement wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar.

　　They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning (pruning) by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in/ by experience.

　　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.

　　Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

　　2. 漢譯英

　　鎮(zhèn)巴縣位于陜西省南端，漢中市東南隅，地處大巴山腹地，東與安康市紫陽縣、漢陰縣相連，西北與西鄉(xiāng)縣毗鄰，南與四川省萬源市、通江縣接壤，有陜西“南大門”之稱。境內萬山重疊，溝壑縱橫。全縣平均海拔1234米,氣候屬北亞熱帶濕潤季風型(northern sub-tropical monsoon),年平均氣溫13.8℃,無霜期(frost-free period)236天。全縣總面積3437平方公里，轄11鎮(zhèn)13鄉(xiāng)474個行政村，總人口28萬人，其中農業(yè)人口25.07萬人，主要是漢族，另有苗、回、維、壯族，其中有苗民44戶220人，是中國西北最大的苗民聚居地。被譽為“紅軍之鄉(xiāng)、苗民之鄉(xiāng)、民歌之鄉(xiāng)”。