The most important empiricists – or philosophers of experience – were Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, and all three were British.

最重要的经验主义者——或经验哲学家——是洛克、伯克利和休谟，这三位都是英国人。

From memory it is an easy step to what are called " ideas" —not in the Platonic sense, but in that of Locke, Berkeley and Hume, in which they are opposed to " impressions" .

从记忆到所谓的“观念” 很容易——不是柏拉图意义上的， 而是洛克、贝克莱和休谟的观念， 他们与“印象” 相对立。

He early manifested a zeal for reading, and devoured, he tells us, his father's dry library on theology, Bunyan's works, Defoe's writings, Plutarch's Lives, Locke's On the Human Understanding, and innumerable volumes dealing with secular subjects.

他很早就表现出阅读的热情， 他告诉我们，他如饥似渴地阅读了他父亲枯燥的神学图书馆、班扬的作品、笛福的著作、普鲁塔克的传记、洛克的《论人类的理解》，以及无数涉及世俗主题的书籍。