They were indeed excellent in two sciences for which I have great esteem, and wherein I am not unversed; but, at the same time, so abstracted and involved in speculation, that I never met with such disagreeable companions.
他们确实精通两种我非常尊敬且颇有研究
科学,但同时又如此深陷于抽象
理论中,以至于我从未遇到过这么让人不愉快
同伴。