法国人对图书的热爱我是知道的。大概在三四年之前吧,上海法国领事馆的总领事郁白先生来到南京,吃饭的时候闲聊,他告诉我,他就要离开中国了,最近刚刚买了一些中国书。我问他买了多少,郁白先生想了想,笑着说:“两吨。”一个买书的人用“吨”来做他图书的计算单位,老实说,我从来 The French love for books is what I know. About three or four years ago, Mr. Yu Bai, the Consul General of the French Consulate in Shanghai, came to Nanjing and chatted while eating. He told me that he would leave China and had recently bought some Chinese books. I asked him how much he had bought. Mr. Yu Bai thought for a moment and smiled and said: “Two tons.” A person who buys books uses “tons” to do calculations for his books. To be honest, I have never