a monstrous lie ❍ 古之秀才,自以为无所不晓,于是有“秀才不出门,而知天下事”这自负的~,小百姓信以为真,也就渐渐的成了谚语,流行开来。(《鲁迅选集》Ⅲ—202)The old literati,who thought themselves omniscient,boasted to everyone: "A scholar without leaving home,knows all that goes on in the world." As the common people believed them,this gradually spread as a proverb.