季羡林先生生于1911年,山东省清平县(今临清市)人,自幼家贫,穷得吃不饱饭。小时候他给一个家境好的亲戚割牛草,送草后磨蹭着等到中午,只为能吃一口玉米饼子。他二十四岁去德国留洋十年,后来一直都在搞外国文学、外语教学和中外文化交流的研究,身上却没有一点儿洋味。 Mr. Ji Xianlin was born in 1911, Qingping County, Shandong Province (now Linqing City), since childhood, poor, poor enough to eat enough. When he was young, he gave a good family relatives to cut the grasses. After grazing, he waited until noon and was only able to eat corn cakes. He was twenty-four years old and went to Germany for ten years. Later, he has been engaged in foreign literature, foreign language teaching and research on the exchange of Chinese and foreign cultures for a long time without any foreign taste.