A: Academic research is a serious undertaking--you first have to read many books, and academic arguments have to be well founded. You must be ready to stand up for any opinion you put forward--you can't simply write whatever nonsense you think will please people, and at the same time the further you go the more specialized your work becomes.
答：作學問是一件嚴肅的事，之前要參閱許多的書，學者論述必須有憑有據，對每個觀點都要負責任，不能下筆隨便譁眾取寵，同時愈到最後便愈冷門專精。