2001年来美国之前和Crocker教授互通Email的时候,我就觉得老先生是个特别和蔼的人。他总是用Iwould like,would be这样非常客气的句式。从他的网页上我了解到,他是英国人,60年代的博士,是奥本大学现在的三个distinguished professor之一。他在照片里慈祥地微笑,唇上的胡须修得 Before coming to the United States in 2001 to communicate with Professor Crocker Email, I think Mr. Elder is a particularly affable person. He always used Iwould like, would be such a very polite sentence. From his webpage I learned that he is an Englishman, a PhD from the 1960s, and is now one of the three distinguished professors at Auburn University. He smiled kindly in his picture, his beard over