A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
博学
Erudition
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
博学能生叶而不结果子。
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
博学-从书中抖出的灰尘变成了一个空头骨。
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.
在文学的旧时代,只有厚脸皮的人才敢进入文学批评的舞台。批评一个人的作品需要同样的博学和智慧,而拙劣的批评家常常成为讽刺和嘲笑的对象。