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弗雷德里克·巴斯夏:经济诡辩·摘录 292

弗雷德里克·巴斯夏《经济诡辩》· Economic Sophisms · 投资

Were this little book destined to last for three or four thousand years, and, like a new Koran, to be read, re-read, pondered over, and studied sentence by sentence, word by word, letter by letter; if it were destined to a place in all the libraries of the world, and to be explained by avalanches of annotations and paraphrases, I might abandon to their fate the preceding observations, though somewhat obscure from their conciseness; but since they require a gloss, I think it as well to be my own commentator.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44145
定位:Excerpt 292 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

巴斯夏自嘲:如果这本小书能像《古兰经》一样流传几千年,被人逐字逐句研究、注释,他就不必解释前面那些简练而晦涩的话了。但既然读者需要注解,他干脆自己来当注释者。这提醒我们:表达简练容易,让人准确理解却难。写东西或讲话时,别假设对方能自动领会,主动把关键处说清楚,比事后抱怨“你怎么不懂”更有用。

上下文

巴斯夏在《经济诡辩》序言或正文中,解释自己为何要补充说明前文。

今日一问

你最近有没有因为表达太简练,让别人误解了你的意思?

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