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.

撒谎冲动——正是通过这一点， 我认出了每一位注定成为神学家人。 ——神学家另一个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.

人们不餐桌上谈论勒南基督， 就像牛津大学餐桌上谈论德国语言学一样。

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.

他远大志向是学习法律，但他对虚无义者怀有强烈仇恨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“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.

我这里所说语文学，一般意义上是指阅读艺术——能够吸收事实而不错误地解释它们，并且努力理解它们过程中不会失去谨慎、耐心和敏锐能力。