“巧妇难为无米炊”,是我国一句俗话。这句话的意思是说,虽系巧妇,如果没有米,也是做不出饭来的。这是一句含有唯物主义思想的话,但是《事在人为》(江西人民出版社出版的《哲学通俗讲话》丛书)一书中却用它曲解了哲学原理。该书是这样说的:“俗话说:‘巧妇难为无米炊’,我们说,没有米就不能做饭,根本不是巧媳妇,是巧媳妇就会想办法。”作者这番话是在提倡革命干劲的情况下说的,书中举 “Clever woman no straw,” is a Chinese saying goes. The meaning of this sentence is that though clever women, if there is no rice, they can not afford to come. This is a sentence that contains materialist thinking, but it does misinterpret the philosophical principle in “Man of Things” (a series of “Philosophical Popular Speeches” published by Jiangxi People’s Publishing House). The book says: “As the saying goes: ’cleverness is no rice’, we say that no rice can not be cooked, it is not a clever daughter-in-law, a clever daughter-in-law would find a solution.” In the context of promoting revolutionary drive, the book cites