As one sees a stork, or even a heron, standing motionless in the marshes of some secluded pond, dignified, elegant and white and pure, the scholar wishes that he were a stork himself.

• 当一个学者看见一头鹤或甚至一头苍鹭，既庄严又纯洁的静立在隐僻的池塘时，他真希望他自己也会化成一头鹤呢。