英-日-中 轉譯的問題例 An Apology for Idlers (1877) in Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers (1881) By Robert Louis Stevenson

 《一日一言 人類の知恵 》(桑原 武夫 ) (1956) 

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. 

12月3日
史蒂文森（Robert Louis Stevenson）

（西元1850.11.13—1894.12.3）

蘇格蘭小說家、詩人與旅遊作家。新浪漫主義的代表人物之一，作品常被歸類成兒童文學與恐怖小說。健康不佳，但經常旅遊，晚年定居於薩摩亞群島。知名作品為《金銀島》、《綁架》與《化身博士》等。

　　極度的忙碌是缺乏生氣的徵候，而怠惰的能力意味著極大的嗜好欲與強烈的個性意識。假如人們在社會上必須從事某種沿襲慣例的工作，就無法意識到自己真正活著，形同與那些雖生猶死、觀念過時的人為伍。倘若把這樣的人從鄉下帶出來，讓他們搭乘汽船，想必他們心裡仍只念著家裡的桌子和書房吧。……他們並未感覺到，自己所擁有的各種能力是為自己而發揮的喜悅。如果沒有採取「必要」的手段，對他們使勁地鞭打催促，恐怕他們將會永遠待在原地靜止不動吧。

節自《維琴伯斯‧普魯斯克集》〈寫給懶惰人〉

Extreme _busyness_, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.  There is a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of
living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation.  Bring these fellows into the country, or set them aboard ship, and you will see how they pine for their desk or their study.  They have no curiosity; they cannot give themselves over to random provocations; they do not take pleasure in the exercise of their faculties for its own sake; and unless Necessity lays about them with a stick, they will even stand still. 

 It is no good speaking to such folk: they _cannot_ be idle, their nature is
not generous enough; and they pass those hours in a sort of coma, which
are not dedicated to furious moiling in the gold-mill. 

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• Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers (1881), contains the essays Virginibus Puerisque i (1876); Virginibus Puerisque ii (1881); Virginibus Puerisque iii: On Falling in Love (1877); Virginibus Puerisque iv: The Truth of Intercourse (1879); Crabbed Age and Youth (1878); An Apology for Idlers (1877); Ordered South (1874); Aes Triplex (1878); El Dorado (1878); The English Admirals (1878); Some Portraits by Raeburn (previously unpublished); Child's Play (1878); Walking Tours (1876); Pan's Pipes (1878); A Plea for Gas Lamps (1878).