余敦康先生是海内外知名学者、中国社会科学院研究员、博士生导师,去年新当选为全国政协委员。他又是我读研究生时的老师,现又在同一研究室工作,十分熟悉。但是,也许因为太熟悉了,一切反倒模糊。大概知道他是南方人,大概知道今年应是六十出头。假如要问,他何年何月出生于何地?何年何月在何单位工作?何年何月受过何种处分或奖励?我便连一个准确的细节也说不清。事情往往是 Mr. Yu Dunkang is a well-known scholar at home and abroad, a researcher and doctoral tutor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and newly elected last year as a member of the CPPCC National Committee. He is also a teacher when I am a graduate student, and I am now very familiar with working in the same laboratory. However, perhaps too familiar, everything is vague. Probably know he is a southerner, probably know this year should be in his early 60s. If you want to ask, where is he born in what month? What month in what unit work? What kind of disciplinary or reward what month? I will not even tell an exact detail. Things are often