胡适14岁时,就奉母命与江冬秀订婚了。18岁时,母亲要他由上海回家结婚。他以家中没钱办婚事,自己也没钱养家,求学要紧为由,拒绝了办这桩喜事。直到他由美国回来出任北京大学教授,年已27岁才完婚。有一次,一个学生因生活拮据萌生辍学打算,胡适知道后很同情他,答应开学时资助他10 When Hu Shi was 14 years old, he was engaged to Jiang Dongxiu on his mother’s birthday. At the age of 18, the mother asked him to marry from Shanghai. He had no money to get married at home and he had no money to support his family. He refused to complete this happy event. Until he returned from the United States as a professor at Peking University, he was 27 years old before he got married. On one occasion, a student was impaired because of his life and Hu Shi learned that he sympathized with him and promised to support him when he started school.