在人类发展的进程中,一些有重大影响力的人物的出现往往是无法用常理来解释或预期的。这些伟大的生命似乎完全没有经过刻意的安排,命运如何也只是在事后才显示出来。一百年前,两位这样的人物出现了。如果我们以埃德加·斯诺(Edgar Snow)和姚莘农(笔名姚克)的一生及所处的时代为标准的话,1905年不仅是波尔多生产佳酿的一个好年份,更是个伟人诞生的年份。 In the process of human development, the emergence of some influential figures often can not be explained or anticipated by common sense. It seems that these great lives have not been deliberately arranged, and how their fate has only been revealed afterwards. A hundred years ago, two such figures appeared. 1905 is not only a good year for Bordeaux to make good wines, but also a great man for the year if we are based on the lives and times of Edgar Snow and Yao Xinnong (pen name Yao Ke).