B: As an undergraduate at Cambridge I heard my teachers talk with respect and affection of their teachers, it was all too easy to imagine that in undertaking the study of Chinese one was becoming part of some great British sinological tradition.
答：我作學生的時候，每見師長提及他們的老師時，所流露出來的尊崇和仰慕，很受感動，而我的老師們同樣令我尊敬、仰慕，並且體會到他們也曾經受到師祖輩的悉心調教，而有此成果… …。如此一來，很容易誤以為這種師生相承的美好傳統，是古來如此，而且代代相傳的。