《说笑》是钱锺书先生在三十年代末发表的一篇随笔,九十年代初陆文虎先生曾解说注释此文,给读者理解此文以一定的帮助,但是陆先生联系二十年代林语堂提倡幽默,到三十年代幽默文学一度盛极一时的情况,认为“《说笑》是一篇针砭时弊的文章”。①这种理解未免有些狭窄。钱先生的作品虽然以讽刺著称,但他的讽刺一般不是针对具体的人物或事件的那种“嬉笑怒骂,皆成文章”式的鞭挞与揭露,而是揭示“无毛两足动物”的根性弱 “Joking” is an essay by Mr. Qian Zhongshu in the late 1930s. In the early 1990s, Mr. Lu Wenhu explained and annotated this article to help readers understand this article with some help. However, Humor, to the thirties humor literature was a very prosperous situation, that “” joking “is an article that pinpoint the shortcomings. ① This understanding is somewhat narrow. Although Mr. Qian’s work is famous for its satirical style, his satire is generally not a whipping and revealing of ”ridiculous and cursive sentences“ for specific characters or events, but reveals ”hairless bipedal" Root weak