但是，听完他的说话以后，稍\--回想，都不 记得他说的是什么了。
They talk on and on regardless of the occasion, words pouring out of theit mouths incessantly, as it were, in a torrent.
这样的例子可以举出不少。
But, when we try to do a bit of recalling soon after listening to them, we find we have clean forgotten what they said.
如果你随时留心，到处都可以发现。
Like examples abound.
说这种话的人，有的自鸣得意。
Keep your eyes open, and you will find them here and there.
，并月向别人介绍他的经验说："我 遵守古人语不惊人死不休的遗训，非用尽人类最伟大的语言不可。" 你听，这是多么大的口气啊！
Some of those given to verbiage feel very pleased with themselves and are more than willing to share their experience with others, saying, "Our ancients say one shouldn't say anything but can cause great sensation.
可是，许多人一听他说话，就讥 笑他在做"八股"。
I therefore ought to follow their teachings by using nothing short of the greatest of human language." See, what a baloney!
我却以为把这种话叫做"八股"并不确切，还 是叫它做"伟大的空话"更恰当一些。
Many listeners will laugh off what they are boasting about as bagu\*.
当然，它同八股是有密切关系 的，也许只有从八股文中才能找到它的渊源。
Personally, however, I think it more appropriate to call it "great empty verbiage'" than bagu.
举一个典型的例子吧，有一篇八股文写道： 夫天地者，六合d宇宙之乾坤，大哉久矣，数千万年而非一 日也。
Nevertheless, since it is closely related to bagu, the only way to trace its origin is perhaps from bagu. thiis: Here is a typical example.
你看，这作为一篇八股文的"破题"，读起来不是也很顺口吗？
A bagu essay begins with something like the all-embracing, the cosmos, the universe!
其中不但有"天地"、"六合"、"宇宙"、"乾坤"等等大字眼，而且音 调铿锵，煞是好听。
How great and everlasting it is, in existence for millions upon millions of years instead of one day!
如果用标准的八股调子去念，可以使人摇头摆尾， 忘其所以。
See, the two sentences, known as poti\*, read quite smoothly, don''t they?
但是，可惜得很，这里所用的许多大字眼，都是重复的同义语， 因此，说了半天还是不知所云，越解释越糊涂"，或者等于没有解释。
Not only are they composed of big words like "heaven and earth'' \* bagu - cight-part essay prescribed for the imperial civil service examinations (known as a stereotyped essay for its of rigidity of form and paucity of ideas). pori --- first two sentences of an essay giving the theme (originally said of a bagu or stereotyped essay). 净 "all-embracing", "cosmos", "universe', etc., but also sound deep and clear, hence pleasant to the ear.
这就是伟大的空话的特点。
If you read them aloud according to the tone peculiar to a bagu essay, you may be SO carried away as to start wagging your head with pleasure in spite of yourself.
尚 不能否认，这种伟大的空话在某些特殊的场合是不可避免的，因 而在一定的意义上有其存在的必要。
Unfortunately, these big words are nothing but redundant synonyms.
可是，如果把它普遍化起来，到 处搬弄，甚至于以此为专长，那就相当可怕了。
As you read, you don't know what the writer is driving at with all his verbosity.
假若再把这种说空话 的本领教给我们的后代，培养出这么一批专家，那就更糟糕了。
And the more he talks. the more unintelligible his words become.
因此， 遇有这样的事情，就必须加以劝阻。
Or you find him talking for nothing at all.
凑巧得很，我的邻居有个孩子近来常常模仿大诗人的口气"，编 写了许多"伟大的空话"，形式以新诗为最多，并且他常常写完一首 就自己朗诵，十分得意。
All that is characteristic of great empty verbiage.
不久以前，他写了一首《野草颂》，通篇都 是空话。
Undoubtedly, as empty verbiage js unavoidable On some specific occasions, there is need for its existence in 2 sense.
他写的是： 老天是我们的父亲， 大地是我们的母亲， 太阳是我们的保姆， 东风是我们的恩人， 西风是我们的敌人。
But it would be extremely terrible to popularize it, flaunt it everywhere, or even regard it as one's special skill.
我们是一公野草， 有人喜欢我们， 有人讨厌我们， 但是不管怎样， 我们还要生长。
And even worse it is to educate our younger generation in the art of empty verbiage so as to develop a large number of relevant experts.
你说这叫做什么诗？
We should therefore do our best to dissuade people from following such a trend whenever it happens.
我真为他担忧，成天写这类东西，将来会变 成什么样子！
Quite incidentally, a kid of my neighbour's recently wrote a great many things in the manner of great poets, mostly in the form of modern poetry, but all were nothing but empty verbiage.