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塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯《自助论》· Self-Help · 领导

It would be beside our purpose to enter upon any criticism of “The Forge” as an engraving; its merits having been already fully recognised by the art journals. The execution of the work occupied Sharples’s leisure evening hours during a period of five years; and it was only when he took the plate to the printer that he for the first time saw an engraved plate produced by any other man. To this unvarnished picture of industry and genius, we add one other trait, and it is a domestic one. “I have been married seven years,” says he, “and during that time my greatest pleasure, after I have finished my daily labour at the foundry, has been to resume my pencil or graver, frequently until a late hour of the evening, my wife meanwhile sitting by my side and reading to me from some interesting book,”—a simple but beautiful testimony to the thorough common sense as well as the genuine right-heartedness of this most interesting and deserving workman.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/935
定位:Excerpt 157 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

夏普尔斯是铸造厂的工人,他用五个年头的晚上,一刀一刀刻出了版画《铁匠铺》。直到把版子拿去印刷,他才第一次见到别人刻的版画——此前全靠自己摸索。斯迈尔斯说,这还不算最动人的;最动人的是家里的情景:夏普尔斯结婚七年,每天在铸造厂干完活,最大的乐趣就是拿起铅笔或刻刀,常常干到深夜,妻子坐在旁边,给他读一本有趣的书。这画面朴素,却说明他既有踏实的头脑,又有真正的好心肠。可见自学成才不靠天赋异禀,靠的是把零碎时间攒起来,再加上身边人的支持与陪伴。

上下文

斯迈尔斯《自助》中讲述工人版画家夏普尔斯自学成才的故事,19世纪英国。

今日一问

你每天下班后的那几个小时,正在用来做什么?

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