北京大学王瑶教授去世前不久,曾把自己的生活描绘为:“已属颠倒黑白之年,处于水深火热之中。”所谓“颠倒黑白”,即少年时之黑头发已变白,而往昔雪白牙齿已成焦黑。王老爱喝茶,老来尤甚,茶杯常满,是为“水深”;又嗜衔烟斗,斗中火不熄,此之谓“火热”。 但“水深火热”之中的王老并非虚度暮年, Shortly before his death, Professor Wang Yao of Peking University had portrayed his own life as: “It is a year of reversal of the years of black and white and is in dire straits.” The so-called “upside down black and white” Teeth has become a charred. Wang loves to drink tea, especially to the old, often full cup, is “deep”; and addiction to pipe, fighting in the fire is not extinguished, which means “hot.” However, “dire straits” among the king is not a dead end,