提起辜鸿铭,生活在今天的年轻人或许有些感到陌生,但在本世纪前三十年间的西方尤其是在德国,他却曾经轰动一时,大红大紫过,被认为是和印度大诗人泰戈尔齐名的东方文化的代表。他是公认的语言奇才,通晓近十种外语,“他的英文文字超群出众,二百年来,未见其右”(林语堂语);他学识 Mentioning Ku Hong-ming, young people living today may be a little strange, but in the first three decades of this century, especially in Germany, the West, he once sensational, popular, considered to be synonymous with the Indian poet Tagore Oriental culture representatives. He is recognized as a language genius, proficiency in nearly ten foreign languages, “his outstanding English writing, two hundred years, no right” (Lin language); his knowledge