商务印书馆一九七三年九月新出版了一本中国科学院语言研究所词典编辑室编的《现代汉语词典》。这是在批林批孔斗争的高潮中出版的新词典,无疑,大家希望它对于文化程度较低的同志批判叛徒、卖国贼林彪和孔老二,将提供一定帮助。可是翻开《词典》一看,不由大吃一惊。《词典》中对孔孟之道的一些概念的解释,竟然采取了令人不能容忍的客观主义态度,不看《词典》还罢,看了反而会中毒受骗。据《词典》出版《说明》称:“这个稿本是文化大革命前编写的,不论是政治思想性方面,还是科学性方面,都会存在很多错误和缺 Commercial Press Newly published in September 1973 a Dictionary of Modern Chinese edited by the Dictionary Editor of the Institute of Language, Chinese Academy of Sciences. This is a new dictionary published in the climax of the proletarian and ideological struggle. Undoubtedly, it is hoped that it will provide some help to the less-educated comrades in criticizing the traitors and traitors Lin Biao and Kong La-second. However, opened the “Dictionary” a look, could not help but be surprised. The explanation of some concepts of Confucius and Mencius in the “Dictionary” turned out to be an intolerable objectivism without looking at “dictionaries”. According to the “Instructions” published in The Dictionary, "This manuscript was prepared before the Cultural Revolution. There are many mistakes and shortcomings in terms of political and ideological aspects as well as scientific aspects