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His writing and printing from time to time gave great advantage to his enemies; unguarded expressions, and even erroneous opinions, delivered in preaching, might have been afterwards explain'd or qualifi'd by supposing others that might have accompani'd them, or they might have been deny'd; but litera scripta manet.
他偶然发表的一些著作却大大地帮助了他的敌人，假如在讲道时一不留神说错了话或者甚至提出了错误的意见，以后还可以加以解释，或是因上下文的关系而对它的意义加以限制，或者直接加以否认；但是文字的证据是不能磨灭的。
Critics attack'd his writings violently, and with so much appearance of reason as to diminish the number of his votaries and prevent their increase;
他的敌人猛烈地攻击了他的著作，看起来他们的批评好像十分有道理，这样他的信徒减少了，他们的人数也不再增长了。
so that I am of opinion if he had never written anything, he would have left behind him a much more numerous and important sect, and his reputation might in that case have been still growing, even after his death, as there being nothing of his writing on which to found a censure and give him a lower character, his proselytes would be left at liberty to feign for him as great a variety of excellences as their enthusiastic admiration might wish him to have possessed.
因此我认为假如他不曾发表什么文章，他留下的信徒一定会多得多，他建立的教派一定还会更重要，同时他的声誉即使在他死后也许还会不断增长，因为没有著作就没有根据，无从加以谴责或是毁谤，他的信徒们就可以任意想象他具有一连串的优秀品质，由于他们热烈地崇拜他，他们会希望他具有这些高贵品质的。
My business was now continually augmenting, and my circumstances growing daily easier, my newspaper having become very profitable, as being for a time almost the only one in this and the neighbouring provinces.
我的生意越来越多了，我的境遇也一天比一天地优裕了，因为我的报纸利润很厚，有一个时候它是本州和邻近各州唯一的报纸。
I experienced, too, the truth of the observation, "that after getting the first hundred pound, it is more easy to get the second," money itself being of a prolific nature.
同时我也懂得了这句话的真理：“在获得了第一个一百镑以后，再去赚第二个一百镑就容易得多了。”因为金钱本身是繁生的。
The partnership at Carolina having succeeded, I was encourag'd to engage in others, and to promote several of my workmen, who had behaved well, by establishing them with printing-houses in different colonies, on the same terms with that in Carolina.
我在卡罗来纳的合伙是成功的，因此我受到鼓励想再提升一些一向行为端正的职工，按照卡罗来纳合伙的条款，订立合伙合同，使他们在各殖民地开设印刷铺。
Most of them did well, being enabled at the end of our term, six years, to purchase the types of me and go on working for themselves, by which means several families were raised.
这些职工的事业极大多数都很发达，在我们的合伙合同六年期满之后，他们有能力向我购买铅字，自己独立经营，这样他们就把许多子女抚养成人了。
Partnerships often finish in quarrels; but I was happy in this, that mine were all carried on and ended amicably, owing, I think, a good deal to the precaution of having very explicitly settled, in our articles, everything to be done by or expected from each partner, so that there was nothing to dispute, which precaution I would therefore recommend to all who enter into partnerships;
许多合伙的结局往往是争吵，但是我倒很愉快，因为我的合伙事业都进行得很顺利，结局也很和谐，我想这大部分是由于我事先防范误会的发生，在合同中非常明确地说明了双方应尽的义务和应有的权利，所以就不可能发生什么争执，因此我愿意劝告所有合伙的人都采取这种预防。
for, whatever esteem partners may have for, and confidence in each other at the time of the contract, little jealousies and disgusts may arise, with ideas of inequality in the care and burden of the business, etc., which are attended often with breach of friendship and of the connection, perhaps with lawsuits and other disagreeable consequences.
因为不管在订立合同时双方是多么相互尊敬多么相互信任，他们之间日后可能发生小小的猜忌和抱怨，在照料业务和事务负担方面会发生不平之感等等，这样往往引起友谊和合作的破裂，或许引起法律或其他不愉快的后果。
