B: The British Museum was home for a time to Arthur Waley, the best known British orientalist of this century. When tempted with a chair at Cambridge he is said to have replied, "I would rather be dead."
答：亞瑟．韋利當年以大英圖書館為家，成為本世紀最負盛名的東方文學翻譯家。劍橋曾經邀他任教，他的答案是：「我寧可去死！」