少年时在上海喜读黄嘉德、嘉音兄弟合编的《西风》月刊,到了美国,看到了风行广销的《读者文摘》,才发现《西风》原来乃是模仿《读者文摘》。《读者文摘》的吸引读者乃是它的内容通俗大众化,但是最主要还是在替忙碌的读者省却阅读时间。由于美国杂志报刊的众多,这样的一本文摘好像是一席快餐,虽然所包含的知识是肤浅 When he was a teenager, he read the “West Wind” monthly magazine compiled by Huang Jiade and Jiayin Brothers in Shanghai. When he arrived in the United States, he saw the popular “Reader’s Digest” and found that “the West Wind” originally imitated “Reader’s Digest.” Reader’s Digest draws its readership into popular content, but most of the time it saves reading time for busy readers. Due to the large number of American magazines and newspapers, such a digest seems like a fast food, although the knowledge contained is superficial