Unlike scholars from mainland China, who cannot give up academic rigor so easily and do not, or cannot, go for making money, which gives them the air of destitute scholars, Soviet scholars can be much more flexible.
不像大陸學者，比較放不掉學者尊嚴，不屑掙、也掙不到，相對令人覺得窮酸。他們可靈活多了。