有些作家,读者要费力气才能看懂他们的意思,我对这样的作家一向是没有多少耐心的。你只要看一看那些大哲学家的著作就会明白,即使是最细腻的思想也是可以表达得很清楚的。你可能觉得休漠的思想难以理解。如果你缺乏哲学方面的修养,就肯定看不出他的思想的具体含义,但是只要多少受过一点教育,就不会不理解每个句子的确切含义。要论写英文,很少有人比贝克莱写得更漂亮了。作家写不清楚,有两种情况。一是由于粗枝大叶,一是由于故意如此。有人写不清楚,往往是因为他们从来没有花力气学着写清楚。这种写得 Some writers and readers have to work hard to understand what they mean, and I have always been less patient with such writers. As long as you look at the works of the great philosophers, you will understand that even the most delicate thoughts can be clearly expressed. You may find Hume’s thoughts difficult to understand. If you lack philosophical accomplishments, you certainly can not see the specific meaning of his ideas, but as long as you get a little education, you will not fail to understand the exact meaning of each sentence. To write English, few write better than Berkeley. Write the writer is not clear, there are two cases. First, due to cumbersome, one is due to deliberately so. Someone can not write clearly, often because they never learn how to write clearly. This is written