Q: Some people compare your spending a decade translating the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government to Ssu-ma Chien's being spurred to write the Historical Records after being castrated. Do you think there is a relation between being placed in adverse circumstances and being spurred to write books?
問：由於您曾身陷牢獄，有人就把您花十年時間完成《資治通鑑》古文今譯的工作，比喻為司馬遷受宮刑而發憤著史記一樣，您怎麼看身處逆境和發憤著書這兩者之間的關係？