He was philharmonic and liked philology.

他爱好音乐并喜欢语言学。

The impulse to lie —it is by this that I recognize every foreordained theologian.—Another characteristic of the theologian is his unfitness for philology.

撒谎的冲动——正是通过这点， 我认出了每位注定成为神学家的人。 ——神学家的特征是他不适合语言学。

One might as well have talked of Renan's Christ at the table of the Bishop of London, as talk of German philology at the table of an Oxford don.

人们不妨在伦主教的餐桌上谈勒南的基督， 就像在牛津大学的餐桌上谈德语言学样。

His great ambition was to study law, but his father, who had a violent hatred for nihilists, made him go in for history and philology, or for " aesthetics" as Nejdanov put it with a bitter smile.

他的远大志向是学习法律，但他对虚无主义者怀有强烈仇恨的父亲却让他选择了历史和语言学，或者如内日丹诺夫苦笑所说的“美学”。

What I here mean by philology is, in a general sense, the art of reading with profit—the capacity for absorbing facts without interpreting them falsely, and without losing caution, patience and subtlety in the effort to understand them.

我在这里所说的语文学，在般意义上是指阅读的艺术——能够吸收事实而不错误地解释它们，并且在努力理解它们的过程中不会失去谨慎、耐心和敏锐的能力。