不久前、我听到人民教育出版社中小学生物自然编辑室副主任刘默耕同志一件感人事迹。这位年过花甲,胃切除四分之三以上,体重不足80斤的老同志,以惊人的毅力翻译了近14万字的《美国科学教育的新方向》一书,稿费却分文不取。这位有30多年党龄的老共产党 Not long ago, I heard a touching lecture by Comrade Liu Mogeng, deputy director of the Nature Editing Office of Primary and Secondary Schools of People’s Education Publishing House. The old comrade, who spent more than three years in the treatment of hypothyroidism and gastrectomy, and weighing less than 80 pounds, translated nearly 140,000 words of the book, “The New Direction of Science Education in the United States,” with amazing perseverance. The old Communist party, which has a party of more than 30 years