It's like this: if a Westerner hopes to understand Chinese society simply by sitting in the Cambridge library reading books, his chances are probably slim.
是這樣子的，若是西方人光坐在劍橋圖書館看書、看小說（古代小說、現代小說都一樣），就想瞭解中國的社會，這個希望恐怕不大，就算書中盡是好材料，我們也看不出來。