The soldiers in the Caucasus were not men of letters.

高加索的士兵不是文人。

He was the first American to be generally recognized abroad as a man of letters.

他是第一个在国外被公认为文人的美国人。

I am primarily a teacher, but I have not been a man of letters per se.

我主要是一名教师，但我本身并不是一个文人。

In those countries, the universities are continually draining the church of all its most eminent men of letters.

在那些国家，大学不断吸干教会所有最杰出的文人。

Given all this, it's no wonder that the Scottish philosopher, David Hume, called Franklin " America's first great man of letters" .

考虑到这一切，难怪苏格兰哲学家大卫休谟称富兰克林为" 美国第一位文学巨匠" 。

In the former situation, we are likely to find the universities filled with the most eminent men of letters that are to be found in the country.

在前一种情况下，我们很可能会发现大学里挤满了国内最杰出的文人。

That unprosperous race of men, commonly called men of letters, are pretty much in the situation which lawyers and physicians probably would be in, upon the foregoing supposition.

那些不富裕的人种，通常被称为文人，根据上述假设，律师和医生可能会处于这种情况。

At any rate, by the nineteenth century self-consciousness had developed so far that it was the habit for men of letters to describe their minds in confessions and autobiographies.

无论如何，到了 19 世纪，自我意识已经发展到如此程度，以至于文人墨客习惯于在自白和自传中描述自己的思想。

In a country which has produced so many eminent men of letters, it must appear somewhat singular, that scarce one of them should have been a professor in a university.

在一个出产了如此众多杰出文人的国家， 他们中几乎没有人当过大学教授， 这一定显得有些奇怪。

A character created by the author and cultural critic Lu Xun in 1919, Chinese schoolchildren learn that Kong Yiji was a pedantic man of letters who stubbornly clung to tradition and failed to adapt to the times.

孔乙己是作家兼文化评论家鲁迅在1919年创造的一个人物，中国小学生都知道孔乙己是一个迂腐的文人，顽固地坚持传统，不与时俱进。

On the death of an acquaintance, more his friend than he imagined, the wayworn man of letters learnt with astonishment that there was bequeathed to him a life annuity of three hundred pounds.

一个熟人，比他想象的还要亲近的熟人去世后，这位风尘仆仆的文人惊奇地得知有人遗赠给他三百英镑的终生年金。

" When will death deliver us from that aged rottenness, " it was in these words of a biblical energy that the little man of letters was now talking of the venerable Lord Holland.

“死亡什么时候才能把我们从衰老的腐烂中解救出来，”这位小文人现在用这些充满圣经能量的话语来谈论可敬的荷兰勋爵。

Many things had become old to the solitary man of letters, but these were new, and he handled like a child an outcome of civilization which had never before been touched by his fingers.

许多事情对这位孤独的文人来说已经变得陈旧，但这些都是新的，他像孩子一样处理着他的手指从未接触过的文明产物。

I can perfectly well understand that a Tolstoy, who was the least literary of writers, should have been lacking in sympathy for the art of one who was the most genial of men of letters.

我完全可以理解， 一个托尔斯泰， 一个最没有文采的作家， 应该不会对一个最和蔼可亲的文人的艺术缺乏同情。

In the same class must be ranked, some both of the gravest and most important, and some of the most frivolous professions; churchmen, lawyers, physicians, men of letters of all kinds; players, buffoons, musicians, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc.

在同一类别中，必须对一些最严肃和最重要的职业进行排名，而一些最琐碎的职业；牧师、律师、医生、各行各业的文人；演奏家、小丑、音乐家、歌剧演员、歌剧演员等。

It is from these different causes that the private teacher of any of the sciences, which are commonly taught in universities, is, in modern times, generally considered as in the very lowest order of men of letters.

正是由于这些不同的原因，大学里普遍教授的任何一门科学的私人教师，在现代通常被认为是最低等的文人。

The universities have, in this case, the picking and chusing of their members from all the churchmen of the country, who, in every country, constitute by far the most numerous class of men of letters.

在这种情况下，大学从全国所有的教士中挑选和挑选他们的成员，在每个国家，这些教士构成了迄今为止数量最多的文人阶层。

The greatest monument to the enlightenment movement was characteristically enough a huge encyclopedia. I refer to the Encyclopedia in 28 volumes published during the years from 1751 to 1772. All the great philosophers and men of letters contributed to it.

启蒙运动最伟大的纪念碑就是一部巨大的百科全书。 我指的是 1751 年至 1772 年间出版的 28 卷百科全书。 所有伟大的哲学家和文人都为它做出了贡献。

As to be a teacher of science is certainly the natural employment of a mere man of letters; so is it likewise, perhaps, the education which is most likely to render him a man of solid learning and knowledge.

作为一名科学教师，当然是文人的自然职业；同样，也许最有可能使他成为学识渊博的人的教育也是如此。

The French people, however, made manifest their affection for the " plain republican" in " his full dress suit of spotted Manchester velvet." He was known among men of letters as an author, a scientist, and a philosopher of extraordinary ability.

然而，法国人民通过“他的斑点曼彻斯特天鹅绒全套礼服”表达了他们对“朴素的共和主义者”的喜爱。 他在文人中被称为作家、科学家和哲学家，具有非凡的能力。