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Everybody laughed at my going to Europe for Chinese grammar. But when it was possible to exchange ideas with European students of modern Chinese, with men like Harry Simon, who were not only able to take part in but even conduct discussion groups in Chinese with the whole paraphernalia of new terms, I found that going to Europe for Chinese grammar was, to change the figure a little, not entirely a matter of 东辕西辙.
脱离熟悉的语境或环境来看自己也许可以少一分自以为是，反而能看得更清楚和透彻。