我前段时间写了一篇《中文也可以美得不寒而栗》贴出之后，听取“哇”声一片（新词汇叫“吐槽“）！部分读者认为：光是辞藻堆积没有思想内涵的文字不美。有的读者则坚称：朴实的语言才能表达真挚的感情。

不知道是不是我们经历过了太多政治运动的洗礼，养成了动不动就要内涵，要深度，要感情的惯性？

辞藻，作为语言的单位，是表达思想必不可少的元素。辞藻如果堆积得巧妙，即使没有思想内涵，文字依然可以很美：

For on no country have the charms of Nature been more prodigally lavished. Her mighty lakes, like oceans liquid silver; her mountains, with their bright aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts , thundering in their solitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her broad deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling with the magic of summer clouds and glorious sunshine.

这种景物描写，精致，简练，有一种音韵的律动。虽然我读不到任何思想的深度或内涵，我还是被它文字之美迷倒了。古代的唐诗宋词元曲能够成为千古万口传，不正是它们在辞藻上那种“食不厌精，脍不厌细”的追求吗？

作为老师，我希望我的学生个个都是辞藻堆积的高手，而不是写作空洞无物的词穷者。我不认为太过朴实的语言能够表达多深奥的思想。

何况，我们生活在一个什么都讲求快捷简便的时代，语言也不例外。我们的辞藻堆积不是太多了，而是太少了。刻意的辞藻堆积，可以营造出一种别致的修辞效果：

It is so painfully, embarrassingly, proudly, honestly, purely real.

（连续五个副词修饰一个形容词，如五雷灌顶，咄咄逼人。）

A year after my first son was born, I felt compelled to throw the requisite, big hoo-ha, Mardi Gras-ish, quinceanera-for-tots-type, baby bar mitzvah-style, professionally-catered one-year-old birthday party.

（七个形容词修饰一个名词，无论是广度还是深度都无远弗届。）

Whoever said “Half the fun is getting there” never had to take two car seats, a stroller, a box of Huggies, six puzzles, a Game Boy, crayons, coloring books, saltines, juice boxes, two tired toddlers, and a partridge in pear tree on an international flight in coach.

（一口气连用11个宾语，让读者读得气喘呼呼，逼真地感受到笔者那种拖儿带女坐经济舱去旅行的艰辛。）

再细想一层，脑中能够有丰富的辞藻库存随意把玩堆积的人，思想是不至于浅薄到哪里去的。 俗话说，“熟读唐诗三百首，不会作诗也会吟。”

所以，我还是要拼命鼓吹：

誓将辞藻堆积进行到底！