But though I would not willingly part with such scraps of science, I do not set the same store by them as by certain other odds and ends that I came by in the open street while I was playing truant.

虽然我并不愿舍弃这些零碎的学问，但比起逃课时在街头偶然获得的那些见闻，我并没有同样珍重它们。