记得我们小时犊,大家都把连环画小册子叫做“小人书”。言外之意,这些书都是“小人儿”看的。稍大一些的孩子(比如进入初中)再翻那些巴掌大的“小人书”,是很失面子的。中学生得在书包里装上厚厚的长篇小说,比如《烈火金刚》、《红岩》、《青春之歌》,或是《三国演义》、《水浒》,或是《红与黑》、《安娜·卡列尼娜》之类的名著, Remembering that we were very young, everyone called the comic booklet a “little man’s book.” By implication, these books are all seen as “little people.” Slightly older children (such as entering junior high school) and then turning over those big “little people’s books” are very losing face. Middle school students are required to wear thick novels in their schoolbags, such as “The Burning Fire,” “Red Rock,” “The Song of Youth,” or “The Romance of the Three Kingdoms,” “Water Margin,” or “Red and Black,” " The classics like Anna Karenina,