年轻时我跟许多和我年龄相仿的人一样,自视过高,目中无人,待人严,对己宽。父亲见此很不高兴。他决心以自己素有的委婉的方式纠正我的这个毛病。每当我对人的品评过于轻率和肤浅时,父亲一般总要反问我一句。“这个人真蠢。”我说。父亲若无其事地说:“比你还蠢吗?”当我谈到某个男人简直叫人无法忍受,谈到某个女人简直不像样时,父亲总是反问一句: When I was young, I was like many people of my age. I looked at myself too much, nobody looked at me, I was strict with myself and I was wide. The father was very upset with this. He is determined to correct my fault in his own euphemism. Whenever my appraisal of people is too frivolous and superficial, my father always ask me a question. “This man is stupid.” I said. My father said nothing, “Is it even more stupid than you?” When I talked about a man who was simply unbearable and talked about a woman who was simply not decent, his father always asked a question: