hand down to posterity ❍ 那些了不得的作家，谨严入骨，惜墨如金，要把一生的作品，只删存一个或三四个字，刻之泰山顶上，“～”，那当然听他自己的便，…… (《鲁迅选集》Ⅳ—189) Some important writers are so strict with themselves,so sparing of ink,that they like to pare down the work of a lifetime to three or four words to be inscribed on the top of Mount Tai for posterity. Of course that is up to them.