If you try to write history in your own age, people and events are still in flux, and it is not easy to pin them down or make predictions; friendships and one's vested interests in relations with others also make a mockery of attempts to "write neutrally and without emotional coloring."
當代人寫當代事，人事都還在變動中，不易捕捉預測；人際間切身的利害、交往，也使「下筆中立，不帶感情」成為奢求。