双语智慧书·要接触实务
232．要接触实务
要接触实务。人生不应全是思考，还应有行动。非常聪明的人常常容易受骗，他们懂得生僻的知识，却不懂生活中的常识，而后者是必须掌握的。他们沉浸在对深奥事物的观察中，没有时间留意身边之事。他们不懂得常人都懂的最基本的事情，于是，他们要么得到尊敬，要么被肤浅的民众看作无知。所以，睿智之人应注意，要懂得一点生意人的精明务实，以免上当受骗，而被人讥笑。做一个胜任日常事务的人，这些事虽不是人生中最高等的，却是最需要知道的。不实用的知识又有什么用呢？在今天，懂得生活才是真正的学问。
232．Have a touch of business sense
Have a touch of business sense. Life should not be all thought: there should be action as well. Very wise folk are generally easily deceived, for while they know out-of-the-way things they do not know the ordinary things of life, which are much more needful. The observation of higher things leaves them no time for things close at hand. Since they know not the very first thing they should know, and what everybody knows so well, they are either considered or thought ignorant by the superficial multitude. Let therefore the prudent take care to have something of the trader about him－enough to prevent him being deceived and so laughed at. Be a man adapted to the daily round, which if not the highest is the most necessary thing in life. Of what use is knowledge if it is not practical, and to know how to live is nowadays the true knowledge.
要接触实务。人生不应全是思考，还应有行动。非常聪明的人常常容易受骗，他们懂得生僻的知识，却不懂生活中的常识，而后者是必须掌握的。他们沉浸在对深奥事物的观察中，没有时间留意身边之事。他们不懂得常人都懂的最基本的事情，于是，他们要么得到尊敬，要么被肤浅的民众看作无知。所以，睿智之人应注意，要懂得一点生意人的精明务实，以免上当受骗，而被人讥笑。做一个胜任日常事务的人，这些事虽不是人生中最高等的，却是最需要知道的。不实用的知识又有什么用呢？在今天，懂得生活才是真正的学问。
232．Have a touch of business sense
Have a touch of business sense. Life should not be all thought: there should be action as well. Very wise folk are generally easily deceived, for while they know out-of-the-way things they do not know the ordinary things of life, which are much more needful. The observation of higher things leaves them no time for things close at hand. Since they know not the very first thing they should know, and what everybody knows so well, they are either considered or thought ignorant by the superficial multitude. Let therefore the prudent take care to have something of the trader about him－enough to prevent him being deceived and so laughed at. Be a man adapted to the daily round, which if not the highest is the most necessary thing in life. Of what use is knowledge if it is not practical, and to know how to live is nowadays the true knowledge.
