亲爱的编辑: 我写信给你,谈谈关于中国有些人似乎在无意间损害了你们伟大文化遗产中的某些方面。我希望我的一些观察报告会引起其他人也在你的刊物上发表他们的看法。我能理解中国人民对他们的国家尽快实现现代化的渴求。他们似乎觉得自己除了贫穷外,再也不会失去什么了。而在这点上,我恐怕他们正在急于失去可能无法挽回的东西呢。当然,我指的 Dear Editor: I am writing to you about some people in China who seem to have inadvertently damaged certain aspects of your great cultural heritage. I hope that some of my observations will cause other people to express their opinions in your publications. I can understand the Chinese people’s thirst for the modernization of their country as soon as possible. They seem to feel that they will never lose anything other than poverty. At this point, I am afraid that they are eager to lose something that may be irretrievable. Of course, I mean