It is not like getting students to do their homework. Dr. Needham's writing is even more erudite, so who knows when it will be finished.
可是催稿的工作很難作，散居各地的鴻儒碩彥們，人人忙碌，你不能像催小學生繳作業那樣追討交卷；李博士寫作更是博學廣聞，興之所至，那天要完成誰也不知道。