On "Borrowing Books Full of Shelves" Author: Li Weihua ("Chinese Teaching and Research Comprehensive Heaven and Earth" No.3, 2007) Gui Youguang used this passage in "Ji Xuan Zhi" to express his intoxicated reading life in a century-old house: "Borrowing books full of shelves, sitting with songs suppressed, everything is noisy; The steps are silent, birds peck, and people don't leave. " Every time I read here, I always have doubts about the sentence "borrowing books full of shelves" Every time I teach students, they often don't understand this sentence when they study here. According to the teacher's teaching reference books and other teaching AIDS, this sentence should be translated as: "All kinds of borrowed books are filled with shelves." Considering the author's life experience and the context in the text, this explanation is extremely unreasonable. First of all, it was very difficult to borrow books in those days. For example, Song Lian said in the preface to seeing Ma Sheng off to Yang in the early Ming Dynasty: "Every time you borrow books from the library, you must record them yourself and count the days." Secondly, returning to China for generations is a scholarly family. There is a grandmother's saying in the article: "My family's study has not been effective for a long time, and my children's grades can wait!" As evidence. Although the family is in decline, it is not impossible to read, borrow books, and fill shelves.
I see the following three explanations: First, I think there are mistakes in the selection of teaching materials here, and "borrowing books full of shelves" should be "accumulating books full of shelves". In Collected Works of Mr. Zhenchuan published by Zhonghua Book Company and Selected Literary Works of Past Dynasties edited by Zhu Dongrun, this sentence was written in a book full of books. Secondly, it is considered that in ancient books, "borrowing" is classified as "borrowing", which is interpreted as "recommendation" in Ci Hai and Chinese Dictionary, and "recommendation" means display. Accordingly, this sentence is interpreted as "the books on display are full of shelves" Thirdly, I think the word "borrow" means "rely on", because the word "borrow" is very common in ancient times, and it is with the help of this bookshelf full of books that the author can be carefree and detached from the secular. But the author thinks that these three theories are unreasonable: First, in the Song and Ming Dynasties, the words "goods" and "borrowing" were generally not common. Secondly, "all the books on display are full of shelves" is not in line with Chinese grammatical habits. "All the books on display are full of shelves" and "all the books are full of shelves" have the same meaning. Why does the author use the word "borrow" to make the language redundant?
Therefore, the author thinks that the word "borrow" in this "full shelf" is the original meaning of "borrow and borrow", but when translating this sentence, we should take a free translation: "All the books we have read are full." So, why do you translate it like this? The ancients said, "Books are not borrowed or read." The author uses this kind of "borrowing books full of shelves" just to show that he has read a lot and his self-satisfaction is beyond words, which is very consistent with the situation when the author wrote this article. Because the author was 18 years old when he wrote this passage. At that time, his life was still rich and harmonious, and his parents lived in peace. Although his parents died young, his grandmother is still alive, and her tenacious and kind grandmother cares for him and has high hopes. The reading style of scholarly family and his good reading complement each other. He read a lot of books at a young age, and he also hoped to realize his ambition of glorifying his ancestors by reading poetry books. Therefore, the author infers that it is through this kind of "borrowing books full of shelves" that the author shows that he already has the meaning of thousands of books in his chest, which can be described as a teenager's success. (Li Weihua, a teacher, now lives in Tonglu, Zhejiang. )