In this sense, it is primarily the second type of information that we learn for the first time in these memoirs. The book includes a lot of intimate detail which recreates the nitty-gritty flavor of the times. Much of it might seem at first glance to border on the trivial, but it is precisely this detail which lends the memoirs their impact and offers the reader something new.
在這個意義上，《李光耀回憶錄》提供的主要是第二個層面的，它包括了許多生活的細節、許多時代的特點，表面上好像沒那麼重要，事實上卻如此生動活潑，即是這本書所提供的「新東西」。