关于严复,人教版教材中有过这样一段文字:“在近代中国向西方寻求救国真理的过程中,他是最重要的启蒙思想家和翻译家。”教材为何将严复的地位放到这样高,并且是“最重要”的启蒙思想家呢?严复生于1853年,少年时代在私塾受教,1866年考入福建船政学堂学习英语和驾驶技术,初步接触到西方一些自然科学。1877年他被保送到英国朴次茅斯大学和格林威治海军 With regard to Yan Fu, the textbook of the PEP has such a passage: “In modern China’s search for salvation truths to the West, he was the most important enlightenment thinker and translator.” Yan Fu Sheng was educated in private school in 1853 and was admitted to the Fujian School of Management in 1866 to study English and driving skills and initially touched on some of the western natural sciences. In 1877 he was escorted to the University of Portsmouth and the Greenwich Navy