Yet, compared to the sense of irrelevance that teachers had about the constitution in the old days, the fact that Chu can, as an elected member of the opposition, stand up in the National Assembly and call for a boycott or can, as a scholar, be a "dog barking at the passing train" without having to worry about being "crushed under the wheels," definitely marks progress.
然而，比起老師當年的鬱卒與無力感，今天的曲兆祥可以反對黨議員身份在國會議場放言杯葛、可以本著知識份子訾議當局的「狗吠火車」精神而不必擔心「被火車撞死」。