一位朋友几年前进了监狱。有一次,我应邀到监狱为犯人们演讲,没有见到他,就请监狱长带给他一张纸条,上面写了一句话:“平日都忙,你现在终于获得了学好一门外语的上好机会。”几年后我接到一个兴高采烈的电话:“嘿,我出来了!”我一听是他,便问:“外语学好了吗?”他说:“我带出来一部60万字的译稿,准备出版。”他是刑满释放的,但我相信他是为自己大大地减了刑。茨威格在《象棋的故事》里写一个被囚禁的人无所事事时度日如 A friend came to jail a few years ago. Once, I was invited to the prison for the prisoners, did not see him, asked the warden to bring him a note, the above wrote a sentence: “Weekday are busy, you finally got to learn a foreign language ”A few years later I got an ebullient phone call: “ Hey, I’m out! ”I listened to him and asked,“ Is the language good? ”He said: “ ”I brought out a 600,000-word translation for publication.“ ”He was released on jail, but I believe he has substantially reduced his sentence. Zweig in the “Chess Story” written a man imprisoned idle time as day