从事科技编辑工作20多个年头,时常被人垢病为“过于认真”。半年之前,遇到一件事情,对我触动极深,谈到“认真”二字,再也不敢那么“欣然接受”,而且面有愧色。 中国科协组织下属各个学会编写的科学家传记,中国作物学会委托我起草高粱育种专家牛天堂的传记稿。如果单纯纪事,讲经历摆成果,轻车熟路,也难不住我;如果要写成纪实文学,我也有自知之明,断然不敢下笔。而这个传记的写作要求介于两者之间,既要写事,又要写人,以纪事为主,要写出科学家的主要成就与贡献,同时要写出他的精神风 Engaged in science and technology editorial work more than 20 years, often being dirty disease as “too serious.” Six months ago, when I encountered something that touched me deeply and talked about the word “conscientiousness”, I no longer dared to accept it with such ease. China Association for science and technology under the auspices of each society to prepare a biography of scientists, China Crop Society commissioned me to draft a biography of cattle breeding experts sorghum. If a purely Chronicle, to tell the story of the results, make a difference, it is hard to live with me; if you want to write a documentary literature, I also have self-knowledge, categorically afraid to write. The biographical writing requirements lie in between the two, it is necessary to write things, but also write, to the main chronicle, to write the main achievements of scientists and contributions, at the same time to write his spiritual wind