“良药苦口利于病,忠言逆耳利于行。”这句俗语以药为喻,道出交际中一般批评性语言的共同特点:使受批评者不舒服。无数历史和现实事件均表明,逆耳的忠言未必达到良好的效果。仅中国历史上,因犯颜直谏而被杀被贬的人就难以计数。当然,先人们也用他们超人的智慧给我们留下了许多委婉劝说最终亦能曲径通幽的典范。 “Good medicine is good for the sick, good for the evil, good for the line.” This proverb takes medicine as a metaphor to show the common features of communication in general critical language: make critics uncomfortable. Numerous historical and practical events have shown that it is not necessarily good for you to be honest. In Chinese history, it is hard to count people who were killed and demoted because of guilty conscience. Of course, the forerunners also used the wisdom of their superhumans to leave us with many euphemistic persuasion eventually but also winding classic.