Even harder to believe was that this friend, who had no background in sinology, had not just one but two different translations of the I Ching, or "Book of Changes," on his bookshelf. The Germans are a pragmatic people, I thought--he wouldn't put these books out to show off his "culture" or "learnedness."
更何況，這位德國朋友不是漢學專業出身，書架上卻擺了不只一本、而是兩種不同的《易經》譯本，根據日爾曼民族務實的個性，這應該不是拿來當做有學問的象徵或「文化裝飾品」吧？