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In 1733 I sent one of my journeymen to Charleston, South Carolina, where a printer was wanting.
1733年我派遣我的一个职工到南卡罗来纳州的查理斯敦去，那里需要一家印刷铺。
I furnish'd him with a press and letters, on an agreement of partnership, by which I was to receive one-third of the profits of the business, paying one-third of the expense.
我供给了他一架印刷机和一些铅字，跟他订了一个合伙合同，我将获得三分之一的盈利，担负三分之一的开支。
He was a man of learning, and honest but ignorant in matters of account; and, tho' he sometimes made me remittances, I could get no account from him, nor any satisfactory state of our partnership while he lived.
他是一个有学问的人，诚实廉洁，但不懂会计，所以虽然有时候他汇款给我，我总不能从他那里取得会计报告，在他生前我也不能取得关于我们合伙情况的一个令人满意的报告。
On his decease, the business was continued by his widow, who, being born and bred in Holland, where, as I have been inform'd, the knowledge of accounts makes a part of female education,
在他死后，他的寡妇继续管理印刷所的事务，她在荷兰生长；据说在那里，簿记是妇女教育的一部分，
she not only sent me as clear a state as she could find of the transactions past, but continued to account with the greatest regularity and exactness every quarter afterwards, and managed the business with such success, that she not only brought up reputably a family of children, but, at the expiration of the term, was able to purchase of me the printing-house, and establish her son in it.
她不但对以往的收支作了一个尽可能清楚的报告，并且以后每季按时继续寄来十分精确的报告，她管理业务是如此成功，她不但把一家孩子都养育成人，颇有令誉，而且在合伙期满以后，能够把印刷铺从我手里买了过去，叫她的儿子去经营业务。
I mention this affair chiefly for the sake of recommending that branch of education for our young females, as likely to be of more use to them and their children, in case of widowhood, than either music or dancing,
我提这件事，主要是为了向我们的年轻妇女们推荐这门学科，万一结婚后守了寡，簿记大概会比音乐或跳舞对她们本人或她们的子女更有用，
by preserving them from losses by imposition of crafty men, and enabling them to continue, perhaps, a profitable mercantile house, with establish'd correspondence, till a son is grown up fit to undertake and go on with it, to the lasting advantage and enriching of the family.
它使她们不至于受坏人的欺骗而遭受损失，或许使她们能够靠着已经建立起来的通信关系继续管理一家赚钱的商店，直到她们的儿子长大后能够经营和继续事业时为止，这样对于家庭既有益又有利。
About the year 1734 there arrived among us from Ireland a young Presbyterian preacher, named Hemphill, who delivered with a good voice, and apparently extempore, most excellent discourses, which drew together considerable numbers of different persuasions, who join'd in admiring them.
约在1734年，一个叫做韩泼希的年轻传教士从爱尔兰跑到我们这里来了，他声音洪亮，而且讲起道来，显然未经准备也能讲得天花乱坠，他的说教吸引了相当数量属于不同教派的人在一起，他们同声赞美他。
Among the rest, I became one of his constant hearers, his sermons pleasing me, as they had little of the dogmatical kind, but inculcated strongly the practice of virtue, or what in the religious stile are called good works.
我跟其他人在一起，经常去听他讲道；我喜欢听他的说教，因为他不作教条式的阐述，而是热烈地劝人为善或是用宗教术语来讲所谓积功德。
Those, however, of our congregation, who considered themselves as orthodox Presbyterians, disapprov'd his doctrine, and were join'd by most of the old clergy, who arraign'd him of heterodoxy before the synod, in order to have him silenc'd.
但是我们会众中有一些自命为正统派长老会信徒的人，他们反对他的看法；大多数年长的教牧师都参加了这一派，并且向长老会的宗教议会提出控告，指责他为异端，想要禁止他传教。
I became his zealous partisan, and contributed all I could to raise a party in his favour, and we combated for him awhile with some hopes of success.
我成为他热烈的拥护者，并且尽我的力量协助他把拥护他的人组织起来，我们为他战斗了一个时期，我们倒颇有胜利的希望哩！
There was much scribbling pro and con upon the occasion; and finding that, tho' an elegant preacher, he was but a poor writer, I lent him my pen and wrote for him two or three pamphlets, and one piece in the Gazette of April, 1735.
双方都在这时候进行了不少笔战，我发现虽然他是一个极能干的传教士，他的文章却写得不行，因此我替他执笔，代他写了两三本小册子和一篇1735年4月在《公报》发表的论文。
Those pamphlets, as is generally the case with controversial writings, tho' eagerly read at the time, were soon out of vogue, and I question whether a single copy of them now exists.
这些小册子，像普通其他争论性的文章一样，虽然当时风行一时，事后却很快地无人问津了，我猜想恐怕现在连一本也找不到了。
During the contest an unlucky occurrence hurt his cause exceedingly.
在论争中发生了一件不幸的事件，大大地损害了他的事业。
One of our adversaries having heard him preach a sermon that was much admired, thought he had somewhere read the sermon before, or at least a part of it.
我们的敌方中有一个人，在听他讲完了一篇大受人们赞美的讲道以后，觉得他以前在什么地方读到过，或是至少一部分曾经见过。
On search, he found that part quoted at length, in one of the British Reviews, from a discourse of Dr. Foster's.
经过搜索以后，他在一本英国的评论中找到了那段说教的详细引文，原来这是从浮士德博士的讲道文中引来的。
This detection gave many of our party disgust, who accordingly abandoned his cause, and occasion'd our more speedy discomfiture in the synod.
这一发现使我们当中许多人看不起他，因此不再支持他了，这样就使我们在宗教议会中的斗争很快地失败了。
I stuck by him, however, as I rather approv'd his giving us good sermons composed by others, than bad ones of his own manufacture, tho' the latter was the practice of our common teachers.
但是我始终支持他，因为我宁可听他念别人写的优秀的讲道文，而不愿听他自己杜撰的恶劣的说教，虽然我们普通的传教士都是自己写讲道文的。
He afterward acknowledg'd to me that none of those he preach'd were his own; adding, that his memory was such as enabled him to retain and repeat any sermon after one reading only.
以后他向我坦白说他的说教全都不是他自己写的，他还说他的记忆力很强，任何讲道文一经过目，他就能背诵不忘。
On our defeat, he left us in search elsewhere of better fortune, and I quitted the congregation, never joining it after, tho' I continu'd many years my subscription for the support of its ministers.
我们被击溃以后，他就离开了我们，到别处去碰运气去了，我也离开了这一会众，以后再也不加入这一教会了，虽然我继续捐献维持这一教会的牧师达许多年之久。
