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决赛题目原文：

聪明的人不一定代表着智慧，智慧的人却代表着一定程度上的聪明。

聪明与智慧看似一对孪生兄弟，本质与内核又有着根本上的不同。

我们形容一个人聪明，并不是同时赞扬一个人智慧，因为聪明的人有时会自误，聪明反被聪明误。智慧的人却不会，即使他并不聪明，却有着强烈的自知之明与明辨事非的准则。

聪明是我们对一些反应机敏遇事讲究策略的人的一种褒奖。智慧却是我们对那种一生努力不断尽取和修炼的人的一种人格修养上普遍的赞同。

说聪明是一束火花，映照了生命亮丽的晴空。那么智慧便有若大海，它博大精深，折射出人类社会千古文明之光。

在聪明与智慧之间我更喜欢后者。

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A clever man may not be wise, but a wise man must be of a certain degree of cleverness.

Cleverness and wisdom are like twins, but there are essential differences between them.

When we say that someone is clever, we are not admiring his wisdom, for cleverness can be misleading. It may overreach itself. However, a wise person never suffers for his wisdom. Even if he is not clever, he knows himself well and makes a clear distinction between right and wrong.

"Clever" is a word we use to praise a person who is shrewd and smart to deal with problems, while "wise" is the one we use to show our admiration for the personality of one who makes efforts in all his life and never stops improving himself.

If cleverness is a spark that lights up the beautiful sky in our lives, then wisdom must be a great ocean, extensive and profound, reflecting the brilliance of the civilization of human society, which has a history of thousands of years.

Between cleverness and wisdom, I prefer the latter.

评语：译文简洁明快、通顺自然，表达了原文的含义与精神，体现了译者较好的翻译水平。但个别地方译文与原文的口气有差距。某些用法也有改进的必要。