到1764年，史密斯辞去了教授职务，开始了为期三年的欧洲大陆之旅，担任布克卢奇公爵的导师。
在法国，他遇到了哲学家伏尔泰、达朗贝尔和金融家雅克·内克，并结识了一群被称为重农主义者的经济学家，
他发明了“自由放任主义”这个词，他的成员包括弗兰科斯·魁奈和雅克·杜尔戈特。
在他回国后，他花了很多时间与休谟在一起，在这位哲学家在1776年去世后，在第二年出版的传记中赞颂他;
史密斯对虔诚的休谟面对死亡时的勇气和镇定的赞赏引起了争议。
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一、
resign 辞职 professorship 教授
the Continent as tutor of 大陆的导师
Buccleuch 巴克鲁
By 1764 Smith was able to resign his professorship and undertake a three year trip to the Continent as tutor of the Duke of Buccleuch.
二、
philosophers 哲学家 Voltaire 伏尔泰
financier 财务 acquainted 熟识的
economists 经济学家
In France he met the philosophers Voltaire and d' Alembert and the financier Jacques Necker, and became acquainted with the group of economists known as the Physiocrats,
三、
originated 起源于 laissezfaire 必要的included 包括
Frangois Quesnay 弗兰克斯·魁奈
Jacques Turgot 雅克·杜尔戈特
who originated the term laissezfaire and whose numbers included Frangois Quesnay and Jacques Turgot .
四、
Upon his return 在他回来的时候
eulogized 称赞 biography 传记
the following year 第二年
Upon his return , he spent much time with Hume in his final illness, and following the philosopher's death in 1776 eulogized him in a biographypublished the following year ;
五、
admiring 欣赏 courage 勇气
equanimity 平静 controversy 争议
Smith's admiring account of the ireligious Hume's courage and equanimityin the face of death stirred controversy.